It was the second day of the second month of February in the first year of the Ming Dynasty.

The spring is cold, and the morning light is faint.

The Forbidden City, where the palace lights are not extinguished, has just emerged with her vermilion outline.

Zhu Yijun, who was standing in the Qianqing Palace of the city, turned his eyes out of the window, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

After experiencing several days of panic, irritability, hesitation, and relieved psychological changes, he accepted his identity as the Emperor of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the current Zhu Yijun is no longer the Wanli Emperor in the original history.

The biggest difference is that Zhu Yijun in this life has an extra soul from the next life.

And this day on the second day of the second month of the first year of Wanli, although it is not a very noteworthy time in history.

But in the current Ming Dynasty, it is a critical day, especially for the elite bureaucracy of the entire Ming Empire.

Many people are nervous and dignified about this day.

Because this day is the day when the new emperor will have a feast!

The political significance of the feast on the surface is to let the lecturer read Confucian scriptures and history to the emperor, but in the Ming Dynasty, which governs the country with etiquette, the deeper meaning is to symbolize that the emperor is willing to follow the etiquette system to govern the country, and is willing to become the Ming monarch, so the world is about to be governed.

For the emperor personally, it is naturally also a key opportunity to win the hearts of the world's corporals and let the world's corporal recognize him as an emperor.

Therefore, whether the emperor is willing to hold a sutra feast and whether he can conscientiously complete the sutra feast is related to whether the relationship between the emperor and the bureaucrats and doctors is harmonious or antagonistic.

Zhu Yijun, who has not yet taken power and has not accumulated popularity, naturally does not dare to slack off this feast.

You must know that now he is a young man on the throne, which can be described as the lord and the country's doubts.

His biological mother, Li, and Feng Bao, the eunuch and governor of Dongchang, and Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, formed a political alliance known as the Iron Triangle, which limited his imperial power.

And if he does not conform to the behavior of the holy monarch and benevolent lord of this era, he will be deposed.

Because in history, his biological mother Li threatened to depose him because of his mistakes and let his younger brother King Lu ascend the throne.

So Zhu Yijun knows that he can't be willful now, he can only do everything first, and then wait until he grows up.

As long as he grows up smoothly, the power that belongs to him will naturally come back, as long as he does not make mistakes during this time.

In fact, as long as he doesn't mess around, this iron triangle will not want to cause trouble and replace the emperor at the cost of destroying the orthodox principle of succession in Confucianism.

Even, Zhu Yijun knew that he didn't have to think about whether to use any means to suppress this iron triangle in the future, especially to suppress Zhang Juzheng.

Because in the future, if they don't wait for him, the emperor, to make a move, the bureaucracy will take the initiative to bite Zhang Juzheng in the future, and even if Zhang Juzheng dies, he will not be let go by the bureaucrats.

Even, if he, the emperor, wants to think about the long-term of the Ming Dynasty, he may have to control the degree of revenge of the bureaucracy against the Zhang Juzheng family.

If the fate of Zhang Juzheng's family is too miserable, then in the future, no Shoufu will dare to offend the bureaucrats of the world for the common people of the society.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun, who already knows the historical development context, does not mind Zhang Juzheng's behavior of some powerful ministers at all, and he does not mind Qi Jiguang, a national hero, doing Zhang Juzheng's lackeys to present two Persian beauties to him.

Man flatters only the source of his power.

Zhu Yijun can't give Qi Jiguang power now, and it is Zhang Juzheng who can give Qi Jiguang power, so even if Qi Jiguang really wants to do something practical for the people of the world, it is impossible not to please Zhang Juzheng.

And if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng, who also happened to be a politician who was "public in seeking the country", Qi Jiguang, a military general, might not be qualified to be Zhang Juzheng's lackey.

What Zhu Yijun only cares about is that Qi Jiguang will give Zhang Juzheng two orchids as a first assistant, so in the future, when he is in charge of power and can give Qi Jiguang power, will he have to send himself five orchids?

After all, he is the emperor! How can it be less than Shousuke.

If you add a little interest, how can you get ten?!

Otherwise, where will I put my face as an emperor?

Of course, Zhu Yijun just thinks so.

Turning back to the words, because he knew that it was not Zhang Juzheng who really constrained his imperial power in the future, but the entire bureaucracy, Zhu Yijun didn't care that Zhang Juzheng was exercising his power, and only seriously wanted to raise his own hope.

For this reason, he specially took the initiative to get up early and woke up the chamberlain and the palace maid: "It's time to wake up!" ”

The attendants and palace maids on duty at night shook their foreheads a little, and then they were shocked.

"Serve the emperor and wash!"

Not long after, Zhu Yijun was served by the palace maid, put on the Yishan crown, and wore the embroidered round collar drag, and really had the appearance of an emperor.

Zhu Yijun is still curious about this.

It's just that this is just casual clothes, after breakfast, Zhu Yijun changed into a big red woven gold dragon yarn and a jade hook, and then yawned and went out of the palace by the eunuch to ask the queen mother of the two palaces.

The Wanli Dynasty had two empress dowagers, the Empress Dowager Chen, and the Empress Dowager Li, the Empress Dowager.

Among the two queen mothers, the most powerful is naturally the Empress Dowager Li.

Because of the emotional memory of the original owner, when he thought of seeing the Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yijun suddenly panicked, and suddenly felt a sense of social fear.

Empress Dowager Li lives in the warm pavilion in the partial hall of the Qianqing Palace.

In order to take good care of her son Zhu Yijun, Empress Dowager Li had been living in the same hall with Zhu Yijun and sleeping on the bed, but only at the beginning of the first year of Wanli, she moved to the warm pavilion.

Even if she has moved to another palace now, Empress Dowager Li still has not relaxed her care of Zhu Yijun, she is used to being careful, and she is deeply afraid that her son will not be in line with the Holy Lord and Benevolent because of her negligence, and she will also have a bad reputation.

"Someone, go and shout that Your Majesty should wake up."

Therefore, even if the weather in early spring is still very cold, Empress Dowager Li will still rush the palace people to wake up the emperor before dawn, without considering that Zhu Yijun is only ten years old now, which is the age of snooze.

Empress Dowager Li really didn't want to delay the feast because her emperor's son was bedridden, and the courtiers thought that the current emperor was lazy.

However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.

Empress Dowager Li may not know that one of the biggest characteristics of the impression that the Wanli Emperor in history brought to the scholars was laziness, rather than faintness and violence.

"! The emperor is here! ”

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the warm pavilion, and an inner attendant called at this time.

Empress Dowager Li was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"Let's just say that I have a headache, so I got up late and asked the emperor to wait outside!"

Immediately afterwards, Empress Dowager Li gave an order.

The Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty did not call herself a mourner, as mentioned in Fan Shuzhi's "History of the Late Ming Dynasty", the content of the Empress Dowager Cisheng's edict to Wanli on the eve of Wanli's wedding, "said that the emperor knew that the wedding would be completed, and I should return the ...... to the palace", which can prove that the Empress Dowager Li basically called herself "I".

After the Empress Dowager Li gave the order here, she hurriedly got up and got out of bed, and called to the palace maids: "Don't sleep!" ”

The palace ladies also rushed over to wash her.

And after washing, Empress Dowager Li couldn't help but smile at the corners of her mouth, and smiled at the leading palace maid beside her: "Madam, Wu'er can take the initiative to get up early!" ”

In the Ariake generation, palace ladies of higher status were called madames.

The lady next to Empress Dowager Li also laughed and said: "The emperor is studious, and he is taught by his mother." ”

Empress Dowager Li instructed her lady here: "You go to see Feng Bao, and let Feng Bao immediately spread to the gentlemen outside that the emperor's virtue of diligence and learning!" ”

"Yes!"