Chapter 30: The Problem of the Enthronement Edict (Asking for a Guaranteed Monthly Pass)

Zhu Houxi looked at them deeply, and now he was more and more inclined to the fact that the cabinet was playing with him, the emperor, rather than that he could not change it.

I'm afraid that a lot of new ones have been added during this period of time, so the next 81 new policies seem to be chaotic. One will talk about eunuchs, one will talk about people's livelihood, and one will jump back to eunuchs.

Such a long edict on the enthronement is so messy, how many problems can Zhu Houxi see in a short period of time? I'm afraid that's what they think.

Before Zhu Houxi saw the enthronement edict, he also thought that the enthronement edict was just a ceremonial text.

But after reading it carefully, he found that the edict on his enthronement actually set the "governance strategy" of the dynasty.

Very specific, very specific!

This kind of general policy was handed to him in such a hurry, how could Zhu Houxi accept Yang Ting and their methods all at once?

The two sides froze here again, Zhu Houxi just gave them the sweetness of "opening a scripture feast", and now there is a dispute because of the edict of enthronement.

The previous statements are easy to say, but with so many specific national policies, Yang Tinghe and they don't want to back down, and Zhu Houxi can't agree with them all.

Generally speaking, these guidelines and policies are "putting things in order" and can be said to be "de-righteous".

Some of the policies implemented by Zhu Houzhao's cousin in the past 16 years have basically been abolished, but you can't say that Yang Ting and them really want to reform.

They are going to be retro.

Returning to the state of the Hongzhi period, it also restricted the monarch's power by restricting the Jinyi Guard, restricting the eunuchs, dismissing the Huangzhuang Huangdian, and advocating admonition.

There was silence in the Wenhua Palace, and Zhu Houxi put down the edict and said: "It is even more absurd to make the yamen in Beijing and abroad discuss the edict on their own. That is to say, you failed to write it all in a hurry, and there was not a single good decree during the Zhengde period? You let me take such an edict to tell the imperial brother a few feasts and be ordered to ascend the throne? ”

Yang Tinghe and the others knelt down, but they did not argue.

Zhu Houxi only felt that somewhere in the palace, his cousin's coffin board must be very excited at the moment.

The bones of the general of Zhenguo are not cold!

There is nothing more than this, Yang Ting and them are really ruthless.

Now Zhu Houxi understands them a little, how strong are these Zhengde PTSD symptoms?

And he, Zhu Houxi, was also very strong before, no wonder Yang Ting and them burst into tears.

"Don't worry, really don't worry." Zhu Houxi sighed, "Now it's the other way around, it's my advice to slow down." It is said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and you are turning the spoon on a big fire. Today I am here to promise you, that what should be changed, it will be changed. First of all, we should sort out these 81 articles, how to summarize them into several major aspects of maladministration, in what direction we should change them, and what effect should we achieve. Time is pressing, meetings are held. ”

Yang Ting complained to them very much, you also know that time is pressing, can you just change the year name and those few words?

In the Wenhua Palace, the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, and the first imperial cabinet meeting was held.

The theme of the meeting: the approval of the emperor's enthronement edict and the governance strategy of the Jiajing Dynasty.

The presiding officer of the meeting, the emperor, fully complained about the confusion in the arrangement of many new policies in the edict, and on this ground, many new policies were classified into several categories, namely: mercy and pardon, appeal for grievances and rewards, abuse of redundant personnel, restriction of eunuch power, clarification of the rule of officials, reform of the economy, and adjustment of the judiciary.

Among them, in the areas of eunuchs, officials, economy, justice, and other aspects that are widely implicated, only the direction in which the changes will be made and what kind of results will be achieved, but the specific measures are not clearly written for the time being.

In fact, these aspects themselves are only in restricting eunuchs, and they write clearly and slash with a knife. In other aspects, most of them repeat the same old tune, such as clearing the land and reducing the amount of servitude, which is written, but there is no clear specific method like restricting eunuchs.

The emperor himself finally concluded: "It will be much more organized in this way. In the past ten years, the ministers have been pointing fingers more and more, and I know it. But the ministers and the ministers are the two hands of the Son of Heaven, and you can't let me really become a cripple. What effect has been changed on both sides, in black and white, I will recognize it. ”

The elders of the congregation could only accept this kind of harmony with a bitter face.

It cannot be said that there is no gain, there are some maladministrations that His Majesty did happily accept their advice.

But this is another half of the game, and His Majesty does not let go of the right to speak step by step.

He set the name of the year, and he also intervened in the new policy.

What is annoying is that the era name he set is really good and very level; And the opinions of the New Deal, he actually said it well.

Now everyone can see with their own eyes: he is not talking nonsense!

Although no one was there to teach him, and it was purely about the new policy in the edict, he actually had some opinions, and the words used to refute their opinions were quite reasonable.

So when he left the Wenhua Palace, it was a cabinet minister who looked at his back and had mixed feelings.

Liang Chu was the first to sigh: "The lively days are still to come." ”

Everyone has a common and clear understanding: you can't treat him as an ignorant child.

It's weird.

Who taught?

Yuan Zonggao was only sent here, facing Yang Ting and their eyes, Yuan Zonggao looked innocent.

I only taught him to read, sincerely.

What is enough to teach in terms of these days on the road? His Majesty's opinions, the old man admires them very much!

No one knows how much a middle-aged man who knows very well that he will be an emperor in the future has thought about the future in his filial piety career without mobile phones, computers, and entertainment.

He may not understand many things of this era, but the struggle for power is also a human relationship mixed with interests and ideals and beliefs.

Zhu Houxi is far more mentally mature than they imagined, and far more diligent and pragmatic than they imagined.

Never underestimate the cautious and resolute heart of a middle-aged man who has a second spring!

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There are three major halls in the outer court, the southernmost is the Fengtian Hall called the Taihe Hall in the future, and the smaller square canopy hall is further north.

According to the revised notes on entering the palace, Zhu Houxi went directly to the Huagai Hall to change his clothes, and prepared to worship and be ordered in front of Zhu Houzhao's feasts.

At this point, the foreign minister was no longer with him.

The closest to Zhu Houyu were Zhang Zuo, Huang Jin, Mai Fu, and Zhang Zuo, the four eunuchs who came over from Xingxian Palace, and the four of them helped Zhu Houyu change into a grand filial piety dress and went under the guidance of Wei Bin.

At this moment, in the Forbidden City, the enthronement ceremony is being prepared everywhere.

The Huagai Hall is the backstage, the Chengtian Gate is the place where the ceremonial announcement begins, the Fengtian Hall is the main stage, and the Fengxian Palace, the Several Feast Palace, the Queen Mother and others live in the palace......

Now the first thing Zhu Houxi has to do is to park the several feasts of Zhu Houzhao Zi Palace.

In the Forbidden City, there is no place called the Hall of Feasts. The so-called feast is a more high-end name for the mourning hall.

After the death of the emperor, from the death to the actual burial, the time usually passes for a long time, and there are a lot of rituals in between.

First in the Qianqing Palace, the spirit, and then the small funeral, the large funeral into the Zi Palace, soon to move to a certain place to arrange a few feasts, waiting for the funeral to be buried.

You can't stop at the Qianqing Palace all the time, right? The new emperor has ascended the throne, is he still in the same hall as the coffin?

The emperor's and empress's feast halls are generally set up in the Renzhi Hall known as the White Tiger Hall, which is a secluded building located in the western part of the Forbidden City, symmetrical to the north of the Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Houxi went all the way here, and before he entered the hall, he heard heart-rending cries inside.

The eunuch leading the way in front shouted loudly at the door: "His Majesty the Emperor has personally paid a few feasts to the Emperor!" ”

So the crying in the hall became louder, and as soon as Zhu Houxi walked into the hall, he saw a beautiful woman in mourning clothes and noble clothes kneeling in the direction of Zigong in front of him to salute.

Zhu Houxi understood, this is Zhu Houzhao's queen Xia.

When others come over, Queen Xia naturally doesn't need to be here. But Zhu Houxi's identity is different, he is the heir, but he is not a son. He came to tell Zhu Houzhao a few feasts and was ordered to ascend the throne, which is a very important ceremonial process. Zhu Houzhao's genuine wife can not only be seen, but also received condolences and answers.

Zhu Houxi looked at the huge Zi Palace in front of him, which now contained Zhu Houzhao who "gifted" the throne to him.

People die like a lamp goes out, no matter how big the pomp and circumstance after the death of the emperor's lamp, how does the edict of the new monarch proposed by the Ministry of Rites comment on him?

Zhu Houxi was a little emotional, and he bowed five times and three times sincerely.

Whether this cousin's absurdity in the legends of later generations is true or false, Zhu Houxi doesn't care anymore.

He should have helped Zhu Houzhao rewrite the evaluation he encountered in the edict of enthronement.

The new history of the Ming Dynasty will be written by him!