As the seventh grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Houzhao is now entering Yingtianfu again, but the first important thing is not to see Li Dongyang, but to go to the Ming Tomb to pay tribute to the ancestors.

This is the basic requirement of moral ethics, and it is also Zhu Houzhao's own wishes.

Ming Taizu started with a broken bowl, not only to establish personal merits, but more importantly, to expel the Mongols and restore the Han world.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the Southern Song Dynasty fell in 1297, and the Qing Dynasty fell in 1912, a total of 615 years.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's greatest and fundamental contribution was not the creation of the system or the victory of the war, but the insertion of a Han dynasty between the Yuan and Qing dynasties. If there were no him, or no other Han emperors, the future generations of Han people in the land of Shenzhou would have to go back more than 600 years to find their roots.

More than 600 years, can you still find it?

In this sense, no matter who is between the Yuan and Qing dynasties, it is worth being sacrificed.

The Ming Tomb is at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Yingtianfu, which is in the shape of the Big Dipper as a whole, and is a three-entry courtyard. The first courtyard is the palace of clothing, the imperial kitchen, the second courtyard is the hall of enjoyment and the east and west matching hall, and the third courtyard is the square city, the Ming Building, the hidden palace and so on.

Needless to say, the rituals and procedures of the sacrifice, including the emperor himself need to wear a crown, which is usually blue, embroidered with patterns such as the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and Chinese insects, implying that the emperor is the master of the world.

The court etiquette had strict requirements for these, and it was more convenient that Ying Tianfu retained a complete set of administrative teams.

Therefore, there is Taichang Temple responsible for preparing the sacrifices required for the sacrifice, Guanglu Temple is responsible for preparing the imperial food and wine offerings, the Teaching Department is responsible for preparing the Dayou Hanlin Academy is responsible for writing the sacrifice proclamation, and the military department is responsible for guarding everywhere, as well as escorting the army......

Zhu Houzhao had already left Beijing in April, and it has been a month now, and Ying Tian has every time to sort out these matters and make preparations.

So as soon as the holy driver arrived, the event quickly began.

It was the Zhu version that was also handed over by the officials of Taichang Temple, and Zhu Houzhao was in the hands.

The so-called blessing plate is a rectangular wooden board with words written on it, and the text on it is also called 'blessing text', which is usually written on the ancestors' difficulties in starting a business, etc., that is, to praise his achievements first, and then write about the descendants to be conscientious, that is, to write how to do it for future generations, and finally write some words of wishes, and at the same time hope that the ancestors will bless us in the spirit of heaven.

It's all part of etiquette.

Zhu Houzhao never made changes, because civil officials are very good at these.

To get to the place of real worship, you need to pass through the Shinto of the Ming Tomb, which is very long, curved and deep, and there are various stone carvings on both sides.

In the past 100 years, several emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not returned to Xiaoling to pay respects, so Zhu Houzhao's trip is very special, and it also expresses a different political connotation.

On the one hand, it is bloodline, orthodoxy, and filial piety, and on the other hand, it is also the will of the Ming to inherit the ancestor Yu Lie.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao himself also attaches great importance to it.

At the end of the Shinto is the Lingxing Gate, the stone tablet under the Lingxing Gate is a three-bay stone archway, and the four words "founding scale" are engraved on the forehead, which was written by Ming Taizu himself.

Later generations of Zhu Houzhao also went to the Ming Tomb, but what he saw at that time was the four characters of Zhilong, Tang and Song Dynasties.

Because of the Zhilong Tang and Song dynasties, this was written by Emperor Kangxi, which can be regarded as a praise for Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements.

Go further, you can see the big golden gate, the forehead of the door is horizontally engraved "Ming filial piety mausoleum" three gold, after the big golden gate is the square city, there is a "great Ming filial piety mausoleum divine merit and holy virtue tablet" in the city, its height is about three floors high.

On the altar below, Zhu Houzhao was solemn and made his first offering in the presence of all officials.

Then the officials of Taichang Temple burned the blessing plate, and the emperor bowed three times and bowed nine times!

And next to him, in addition to the people brought from Beijing, there are also Wei Guogong, Ying Tian Governor and Ying Tian's Six Shangshu.

The emperor knelt, and they all knelt down, which can be said to be a vast place, and all of them had to salute Zhu Yuanzhang.

The young emperor was angry, his voice was loud, and he raised his head and said: "The seventh emperor of filial piety, the minister Zhu Houzhao, today dare to show Emperor Taizu Gao, Empress Xiaoci Gao: since ancient times, the Holy Emperor Ming King, entrepreneurship and vertical unification, all by Tianxi Zhiyong, to restrain the chaos, in order to open the royal industry." The ministers obeyed the mandate of heaven, inherited the foundation of the dynasty, entrusted the legacy of the emperor's examination, worked diligently, and dared to neglect. Today, with a squint, entrusted to the Zhaomin, and always thinking about the reward, it is like walking in the depths......

…… coincided with the treacherous and rebellious disasters in the northwest, and many disturbances, and rebellious ministers swarmed one after another. Today's fate will be out to clear the desert. Look at the spirit of the ancestors of heaven and earth, protect the Han land of the world, but the ugly and the evil will be ......punished, and the evil will be destroyed."

Classical Chinese seems to have a special momentum, and the more Zhu Houzhao speaks, the more energetic he becomes, as if he has already raised three feet of Qingfeng to investigate the chaos.

But this is not the end of the message.

The important ministers listened to it and seemed to feel that the emperor was reading Emperor Taizu's essay again:

"Since ancient times, emperors have ruled the world, all of which are in China to control Yidi, and Yidi to serve China, and I have not heard of Yidi living in China and controlling the world. Since the Song Zuo tilted, Yuan Yibei Di entered China, within the four seas, he did not surrender, this is not manpower, it is really God's gift. At that time, the monarch was bright and good, enough to dominate the world, and there were still sighs of inversion of the crown and shoes. Since then, the courtiers of the Yuan Dynasty have not followed the ancestral teachings, and they have been ...... in the abolition of the program."

"My Taizu Emperor Gao, from Buyi, was on duty in troubled times, and he made a vow to expel Hu Lu, restore China, establish Chen Ji, and relieve the people. So that the people have their place, snow China's shame, this is an immortal achievement! Today, the people of the Central Plains are the people of the Tang and Song dynasties, the Chinese people, and the land of the Central Plains is the land of the Tang and Song dynasties, the land of China, the Ming Dynasty, and the prestige of the Han officials! ”

In this passage, the emperor re-emphasized the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty on the one hand, and at the same time highlighted the words Huaxia and Han.

"For example, Mongolia and Semu, although they are not of the Chinese race, but between the same heaven and earth, there are those who can know etiquette and righteousness and are willing to be subjects, which is no different from the people of Zhongxia. If you don't want to be a minister, it's not only the enemy of Zhu Ming, but also the enemy of the Han people! ”

The first half of this paragraph is still in the text of Yu Yuan, but the second half of the sentence was added by Zhu Houzhao himself.

Overall, this proclamation is very special.

After reading it all, Zhu Houzhao bowed again, and then returned to the palace under the guidance of officials from Taichang Temple.

The imperial palace left by Ying Tian.

There is also a Fengtian Gate here, and there is also a Fengtian Temple.

Here, Zhu Houzhao summoned Yingtian's civil and military officials, and clearly announced to the world:

"Today, I worship my ancestors to tell the court officials and all the people of the world. Daming is the name of the country created by my ancestors of the Zhu family, and the inheritors, Liu Han, Li Tang, and Zhao Song, are all orthodox for my Han people. After today, all the children of the Han family should guard the land of our Han people and protect the people of our Han people. For thousands of years, the change of dynasties, no one can stop it, one day in the future, I will also be traitorous, villains are in charge, the people of the world can fight for this royal road, the so-called princes will have a kind of Xiangning, this is the way of the Han people's life.

Only collusion with foreigners, betraying the ancestors of the ancestors, unforgivable, today you and I are here to swear, but if someone makes the Middle Earth dirty again, it is not only my Zhu Ming's sinner, but also the sinner of China. In the heavens and on the earth, thousands of heroic spirits will curse this person, and they will die and their souls will not be at peace! Cover my Chinese people, and heaven will order my Chinese people to be safe, how can Yi Di be governed? ”

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