On the 11th day of the first month of the 35th year of the Grand Duke, the Forbidden City Fengtian Temple, the first court meeting after the opening of the new year.

The people of the clan, the imperial court, the governor's office, and the industrial group have all arrived.

Zhu Jingyuan came to Taishang and sat down, everyone bowed and saluted together, and then shouted long live.

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand to let everyone take a seat, and looked around at everyone at the scene, his heart was filled with an inexplicable emotion.

Fifty years ago, in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City of Shuntianfu, he was still a fifteen-year-old and a half-old child.

The world war can't go on, and as a big child, he openly shouted that the war should be stopped.

After that, he participated in the armistice negotiations, and was respected by his grandfather, who was the emperor, and began to actually participate in the actual affairs of the imperial court.

Thirty-five years ago, on the first day of the opening of this hall, he was a high-spirited young man.

My father was in this hall and officially authorized himself with the great power of the state.

After decades of conscientious work, he has brought a country that has just entered the industrial age to the information age.

The future is about to officially enter the era of machine intelligence.

There are achievements that can be handled, and there is no big problem with the heir, and there are no regrets in my life.

Now I am really old, and my energy is far less than when I was young.

Staying in this position will only slow down the efficiency of the imperial court.

Zhu Jingyuan is not completely greedy for power, but knows that he must set an example in order to truly uphold the rules of power transfer.

Only when the supreme power can be transferred normally can the stable continuation of the family be maintained and the stable operation of the imperial court can be ensured.

Continue to be the emperor for more than ten years, and it is more important to be the latter than the latter.

Besides, I have really worked hard all my life, and it is time to retire and rest and enjoy.

But before that, I still have some things to do.

So, Zhu Jingyuan took out a booklet from his pocket.

The booklet is very thin, only inside is a very simple piece of paper.

Zhu Jingyuan raised his eyes and looked at the people below, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, he read the above content with his own mouth:

"Canonize the imperial concubine Wang as the queen, and prepare for the post-sealing ceremony with the great uncle."

It's a very simple sentence, but it's an extremely important thing, and it's something that everyone expected.

Zhu Jingyuan has not had a princess before he ascended the throne, and there has been no queen for more than 30 years after succeeding to the throne.

All the clans, courtiers, and even the common people felt that Zhu Jingyuan was obviously not ready to canonize the empress like the first emperor.

As a result, it has been thirty-five years since the Grand Duke, and suddenly a post-sealing ceremony has to be held.

But no one dared to say anything either.

Wang Ya is the queen, and she is also expected, she was originally the de facto queen, but now she is just making up a formality.

But ask Wang Ya is Zhu Dilan's mother.

So, Your Majesty, do you want to let Judy Lanthanum succeed you?

Or will your old man continue to be emperor for a few more years or even more than ten years?

The current level of medical care has improved too much, and the emperor enjoys the best medical care in the world, and it is no problem to live to the age of eighty.

But no matter what everyone thinks, the things of the post-closure ceremony are to be done.

Moreover, according to Zhu Jingyuan's requirements, it was particularly solemn and grand.

With the efficiency of the information age, it was still prepared for three full months, and it was officially held in April.

The venue was placed in the most formal Fengtian Temple, and it was also required to recruit as many people as possible to participate in the grandest ceremonial event.

As a result, at the end of the ceremony, Zhu Jingyuan took out a booklet from his pocket.

Then in front of his father, mother-in-law, and biological mother.

In front of his own queen, concubines, and all his princes.

In the presence of all the princes and the high families, all the high ministers and ceremonial officers.

and the senior managers and managers of the four major industrial groups.

The above was read out in person:

"The sixty-fourth son of the emperor, Di Lan, is the emperor."

It's also a very simple sentence, but it's also the most important one in the world.

Zhu Jingyuan decided on the choice of the next emperor on this occasion.

At this moment, everyone in the audience was a little stunned.

Emperor Zhu Jianyan and the two queen mothers were chattering in their hearts, this kid finally decided to retire.

Wang Ya was in a complicated mood, she had just become a queen, and she immediately became the queen mother.

But I'm still very happy in my heart.

Her own queen was personally crowned by her husband, not the queen mother who was honored after her son succeeded to the throne.

For a woman, the difference between the two is huge.

As for the order to let Judy Lanthanum succeed to the throne now, of course, there is no problem.

Although Zhu Di Lan has long been out of the Ministry of Officials, her current position is not Otsuka Zai, but the president of the Great Sect and the Criminal Law Yuan.

There are basically no traditions left.

However, when the emperor was the previous minister, it was only a convention formed by the previous emperors, or an unspoken rule.

How the emperor chooses the heir, the rules are decided by the emperor himself.

All the courtiers can only sigh in their hearts, His Majesty the Grand Duke is really from childhood to old age, and he has never played cards according to the routine.

Judy Lanthanum herself was even more incredulous, and some mechanically stood up:

"Father...... You're serious......"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately straightened his face and whispered:

"Of course it's serious, you Lao Tzu and I are Chrysostom Yuyan, hurry up and roll over to me!"

Zhu Dilanum hurriedly walked out and went to the stage to give Zhu Jingyuan a big salute.

In front of her parents, Zhu Dilanum took over the edict from her father, and then was driven back to the apse by Zhu Jingyuan to change her clothes.

After Zhu Di Lan changed into the emperor's regular clothes, she bowed to her grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother sitting on the stage.

Zhu Jingyuan pulled Wang Ya up and stepped forward, gently patted his son's shoulder and said:

"Do it well, the future of Daming depends on you."

Judy Lan's mind is still a little confused now, and her body instinctively and mechanically agrees:

"The sons must do their best and live up to their father's expectations."

Wang Ya next to her also interjected:

"You can't run away after all, and the burden of the whole world has fallen on your shoulders.

"But you don't have to work too hard, don't burn yourself out......"

Judy Lanthanum also answered honestly:

"Thank you for your mother's care."

The three of them said a few words here, and Zhu Jingyuan took them to Zhu Jianyan.

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and bowed his hand to his father:

"Father, you have been promoted again now, and you will be the Supreme Emperor in the future, Your Majesty the Supreme Emperor."

After Zhu Jingyuan passes on the throne, he will become the emperor, and Zhu Jianyan will become the emperor, or the supreme emperor.

According to Zhu Zhongliang's practice at that time, the new emperor wanted to take the princes of the clan to visit the Emperor Taishang and the Supreme Emperor together.

Then the Supreme Emperor transferred the identity of the patriarch of the clan to the Emperor Taishang.

Now that all the princes are here, it's time to do this together.

Zhu Jingyuan originally had this idea, and did the things of the post-sealing ceremony, the announcement of the succession, and the worship of the Supreme Emperor together.

However, Zhu Jianyan is too old, and he has already handed over the identity of the patriarch to Zhu Jingyuan.

Now it's just a matter of changing the name.

Zhu Jianyan also realized his son's thoughts, and his heart was speechless and funny, his son has not acted according to common sense since he was a child.

"Oh, you kid is finally willing to give up, I thought you were going to work until you were eighty......"

Zhu Jingyuan shook his head with a smile and said:

"You can't break the rules, it's hard to remedy it after it's broken.

"Even now, people generally live longer, and the retirement time is slightly delayed until the age of 65.

"But if you add it to eighty all of a sudden, it's no different from life.

"In your sixties, you can really help your children take care of things, but after you are eighty, you really don't have the energy to mix.

"In order to maintain the establishment of the imperial succession system by Emperor Shizu and his old man, the emperor cannot be above the threshold of sixty-five years old at the latest.

"My grandfather and I both abdicated at the age of sixty-five, and no one in the future generations should dare to exceed this limit.

"At this age, you can still help the child up and give it a ride.

"When you really reach the age of eighty or ninety, you won't even have the ability to give a ride.

"If it doesn't work when you want to pass on the throne, it will be a big mess."

Zhu Jianyan said approvingly:

"That's right, there's no guarantee that the offspring will be like you kid and don't need extra care."

Zhu Jingyuan thought about what happened back then:

"If it weren't for you and my grandfather watching, I would definitely have done a lot of wrong things when I was young, and maybe I would have made a big mess."

Zhu Jianyan didn't pick up this stubble, and didn't feel that he had played much of a role:

"I'll just treat you seriously, hurry up and let Di Lan and the child come to salute, and let the child do the emperor's business when it's over."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and summoned Zhu Di Lan to come over and salute with all the princes of the clan with him.

Zhu Jianyan accepted the worship of the clan with a smile:

"Alright, excuse me."

In this way, today's major events are all done.

Zhu Jingyuan, together with his queen and the queen mother, escorted his father and mother into the apse together.

Everyone at the scene got up again, followed Zhu Di Lanthanum to salute Zhu Jingyuan and his party, and sent them off the scene.

Then Judy Lanthanum took a seat on the throne and received the official worship of all the personnel.

After Zhu Jingyuan left the Fengtian Palace, he directly took the tram in the Forbidden City and sent his father and mother back to the harem.

When he arrived at the palace where Zhu Jianyan lived, the servant moved Zhu Jianyan to his recliner, and then the family sat and chatted in a circle.

Zhu Jianyan seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked Zhu Jianyan very curiously:

"Now that you've retired, shouldn't you think about the mausoleum?

"What are you going to do? Say it for Daddy's reference? ”

Zhu Jingyuan was speechless for a moment:

"Didn't your old man's affairs be arranged a long time ago? You can't change it now, right? ”

Zhu Jianyan took a breath:

"Your dad and I are just curious, can't we?"

Zhu Jingyuan said indifferently:

"I don't have any special ideas, just dig a hole in the mountain west of the city and put it in by myself, just like my ancestors did before."

Zhu Jianyan said with some surprise:

"Didn't you think about freezing yourself and scolding yourself?"

This time, Zhu Jingyuan didn't speak, and his mother Liang Yunying spoke:

"Freeze the corpse? What's the difference with a mummy? We Ming people don't like this. ”

Longevity is the ideal of all people, and eternal life is the dream of all people.

The Ming Dynasty is now technologically advanced, and there are many traditional nobles and wealthy families, especially the royal family.

Therefore, how to treat various forms of diseases and how to prolong life as much as possible are the key research directions in medicine and biology.

The research progress is also similar to that of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and new gains have been made in the direction of treating various diseases.

But there has never been any special progress on the dream of eternal life.

There are also two in the same direction as in the previous life.

Dormant and frozen.

The current approach and achievements are very similar.

Dormancy refers to some animals with hibernation habits, and enters a dormant state through drugs to assist mental adjustment and reduce the body's metabolic rate.

The body does not completely stop metabolism, and even cannot avoid endogenous diseases, but can only slightly delay the rate of aging.

It is also usually only possible to last for a few months to a few years.

Freezing is the process of freezing after the death of a person, such as replacing blood with certain antifreeze liquids.

Finally, the processed body is completely frozen and stored in a tank of liquid nitrogen.

As long as there is a continuous supply of liquid nitrogen, the body will not decay after 25 million years.

Freezing is usually done after death, and can be seen as a new form of funeral, making the body into a high-tech mummy.

As for how many years later, the idea that future generations will thaw them up is still pure fantasy.

It was not an awakening at all, but a physical resurrection.

Even if the person is still alive when it is frozen, it will die directly and completely after freezing.

The time it takes for humans to acquire the technology to resurrect corpses is simply not decades or even one or two hundred years.

Rather, it may take thousands or even tens of thousands of years, or even never be possible.

Unless there is a big explosion of technology in the relevant areas.

Dormancy in science fiction works usually combines the advantages of the two technologies of dormancy and freezing in reality.

Human beings themselves are alive and enter a dormant state, and can remain unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years without aging.

So science fiction is just fantasy, not reality.

Since the technology is not mature at all, the key is that it needs to be maintained after freezing, and there is no way to really settle it into the ground.

When Zhu Jianyan built the imperial tomb, the related technology was more crude and even primitive, no different from simple freezing.

So I didn't think about using it at the time, and I don't know why Zhu Jianyan suddenly wanted to use it now.

Zhu Jianyan retorted quite seriously:

"It is of course impossible to say that the resurrection is not possible now, but who knows if it will still be impossible thousands or even tens of thousands of years from now?

"Even if the Egyptian mummies weren't dug up and eaten by Xiyi, maybe there would be a chance in tens of thousands of years?"

Zhu Jingyuan was a little speechless, feeling that his father was really confused:

"The mummy's internal organs have been dug up, the cells are completely dead, and it's similar to cured meat, and the gods can't live when they come......

"Our technology is indeed much better now than it was when the mummies were in place, but there is not necessarily an essential gap in the technology of disposing of corpses.

"Most of the human body is water, including blood and all cell fluids, which swell during freezing, which directly destroys basic cellular structures.

"The most we can do is replace the blood, but we can't drain all the water out of our body, we can't completely dehydrate.

"The difference between freezing and mummy is only the difference in the size of the unit of the destroyed structure."

Zhu Jianyan continued:

"You're talking about the present, who knows what the world will be like in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years?

"Two hundred years ago, people would never have imagined that we could have built something as magical as a mobile phone.

"Even if it really can't be resurrected, freezing it is not completely useless.

"Leaving some complete corpses for tens of millions of years later is also of high archaeological and research significance."

Zhu Jingyuan was still speechless and said:

"Liquid nitrogen needs to be refilled continuously, and the machines we are building today can't last for hundreds of years.

"To stay frozen, you have to have someone to maintain it all the time.

"If the defenders are our descendants, it is impossible and does not need to open the coffins of our ancestors.

"If our children and grandchildren are gone, and there is no one to maintain the maintenance equipment, it may not take a few years to rot.

"From this point of view, freezing is not as good as mummies, and it is necessary to preserve and soak in antiseptic water."

What else did Zhu Jianyan want to say.

Zhu Jingyuan followed up with a sentence:

"If you really want to freeze, just freeze it, and I can find the best solution for you."

Zhu Jianyan sighed, and then said:

"By the time you reach my age, things may change."

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:

"I don't think there will be any changes, the underlying research in biology is difficult and the cycle is long.

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, and I just want to be in the soil like my ancestors."

A group of people are all old people, and everyone's energy is not very good, and after chatting for a while to determine the matter, they all went back to rest.

The next morning, Zhu Dilan, as the emperor, came to greet Zhu Jingyuan for the first time.

Zhu Jingyuan told Zhu Dilanum about his father's intentions, but at the same time told him that this was a clan matter.

I will continue to follow up and be responsible directly, and directly contact the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry.

Let Judy Lanthanum concentrate on her own business.

Zhu Di Lan didn't care why her grandfather wanted to freeze, but she definitely couldn't object to what her grandfather asked.

Anyway, I don't have to worry about it, so I honestly agreed.

Judy Lanthanum said goodbye to her father and grandfather, and went back to busy her own affairs, mainly adjusting personnel.

Three days later, Zhu Jingyuan personally summoned the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry and asked them to sort out the latest technology.

Design a body cryonics system that can operate completely independently as much as possible.

At the same time, he immediately began to renovate Zhu Jianyan's mausoleum, and placed this refrigeration and maintenance system in the mausoleum.

The original main burial chamber was converted into a freezer location.

The Ministry of Industry and the New Industry Group originally had laboratories to study related technologies, but now they have only officially decided to use them in Zhu Jianyan's imperial mausoleum.

However, Zhu Jianyan's mausoleum cannot be completely closed, and access roads and equipment must be set aside for regular inspection and maintenance.

Just in case, it is necessary to design a function that can completely close the passage at any time.

At the same time, it ensures that maintenance personnel disappear and the equipment runs on its own.

When it is finally unable to operate on its own, the refrigeration equipment in the mausoleum can also be turned into an ordinary coffin.

This transformation is quite complicated.

However, you can first make the core frozen coffin to ensure that it can be used directly after the death of the Supreme Emperor.

As for other maintenance and energy supply equipment, it can be continuously supplemented and adjusted in the future.

Zhu Jingyuan is busy here with the renovation of his father's mausoleum.

Judy Lanthanum began the transformation of the imperial court and began to apply machine intelligence and unmanned equipment in various industries.

(End of chapter)