Having dinner with Xia Yuanji, it didn't take an hour for this matter to spread all over Yingtian.

The identities of these two people are very sensitive, one is the son of the Han Dynasty, and he is also the eldest son of the Han King who has competed for the prince and is still influential today, and the other is the Hubu Shangshu, who is in charge of the money and grain of the entire Ming Dynasty.

But no one said anything about it.

Zhu Di didn't say anything, what can others say? Do you want to die, or do you not even want the lives of your family?

But after that, Zhu Zhanyan didn't make any moves, he stayed in the Zongren Mansion, and went to the Heavenly Realm Temple in the middle, knocked on the wooden fish for a long time, and then never left the Zongren Mansion again.

Chinese New Year's Eve, 酉時.

It was equivalent to five o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhu Zhan Yan set off from the Zongren Mansion and headed for the palace.

When he was in Yingtian City, he didn't feel anything, but after entering the palace, he had to dismount and walk, looking at the familiar palace, Zhu Zhanyan's heart added a little emotion.

Once upon a time, he was also the one who could come and go here frequently, but now he can only wait for the edict.

Today's palace is very lively, there are many people coming and going, Zhu Zhanyan saw a lot of faces that he couldn't see on weekdays, and he also saw a lot of clothes that didn't belong to the Ming Dynasty.

"The prince of Han has arrived!"

With a high-pitched shout from the eunuch, there was a brief silence at the banquet, and all but those who performed turned their eyes to the door.

Soon, a young man dressed in a white prince's dragon costume came into their sight.

"The grandson visits the imperial grandfather, and the imperial grandfather bows to Jin'an."

"I'm there."

Zhu Di's tone was flat, and he waved his hand and motioned for Zhu Zhan to sit down.

Zhu Zhanyan got up and was about to sit down, but he was stunned for a moment.

At this time, he realized that the order of the seats today was a little different from the order he had last come to attend this Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

In the feudal era, the monarch was the king, the minister was the minister, and the etiquette was unbreakable, so the order and position of the seats were very particular.

Normally, the top position is Zhu Di's, there is no doubt about this, and in the case of the crown prince, the position of the emperor's head is the prince's, there is no doubt about this.

In such a situation, unless there is a formal canonized imperial grandson, there will be no other person's place on the steps.

That low step represents the difference between the monarch and the minister.

But today, the position of the crown prince is not under the emperor, but under the steps, opposite is Zhu Zhanji's position, and next to Zhu Zhanji is Zhu Zhanji's position.

Stunned for a moment, Zhu Zhanji reacted to Zhu Zhanji's beckoning, and walked towards his position.

The banquet resumed its liveliness, but everyone's eyes were still looking towards Zhu Zhanyan intentionally or unintentionally.

"How? Have you seen all these envoys? ”

Zhu Zhanji didn't know if he had eaten something wrong, or if he had been instructed before going out, so he talked to Zhu Zhanji with great interest as soon as he came up.

"Let me tell you, I was shocked to see these people at the beginning, because I didn't expect that there are so many people who are similar to us Han people."

"I've always heard that there are all kinds of people in the past, some of them look like orchids in the Western Regions, and some of them look like Kunlunnu, but I didn't expect that most of them are similar to us."

"That's normal, too." Zhu Zhanyan smiled.

Just one sentence, Zhu Zhanyan didn't speak again.

The Ming Dynasty still has little exploration of the outside world, although Europeans have been to the Central Plains, but there are still too few and too few, resulting in the Central Plains' understanding of the outside world is not enough.

Not to mention the black monkeys.

Zhu Di glanced at the two cousins who were talking happily, did not speak, and drank quietly.

The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, to put it bluntly, is a social occasion, a social platform for the courtiers, in addition to the role of highlighting the harmony of the monarch and the courtiers.

This year is a bit special, because there are too many envoys coming, and this year there is a purpose to show the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, but through this banquet, there are too few things that can be shown.

Because of Zhu Zhanji, no one bothered Zhu Zhanji, but some people came to Zhu Zhanji, but they were just some generals.

For example, Fengcheng Hou Li Bin, Xin Ningbo Tan Zhong and others are all diehard loyalists of the former Han kings.

Zhu Di, who was the most eye-catching and sat in the highest position, did not make any moves.

This made many people present have some faint thoughts in their hearts.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

Zhu Zhanyan got up early, put on his cumbersome crown clothes, entered the palace with a clanging sound, and stood in his place at the entrance of the Fengtian Palace.

At the end of the day, Zhu Di was also dressed in a grand crown dress and walked out of the Fengtian Hall on time.

Wearing a crown of nine flat heavens, nine colors each, nine jade beads, five chapters of Tsing Yi, four chapters of silk clothes, a total of nine chapters, and then a single single, a knee cover, a big belt, a jade pendant, a big ribbon, a small ribbon, socks, a shoe, and so on.

After this set, luxury is real, but tired is also very tired, because Zhu Zhanyan has a deep understanding that he also has these things, but he is regulated by the prince, and the old man is regulated by the Son of Heaven.

This set of clothes is composed of a flat heavenly crown, that is, a crown and a gown, so it is also called a crown robe.

This is not like the Tuanlong costume that Zhu Di wears on weekdays, it is just a regular dress, wearing different clothes on different occasions and abiding by different etiquette rules, this is "the beauty of uniforms and badges, and the great summer of etiquette".

In fact, this is already the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the regulation of the great etiquette when simplifying the cumbersomeness of the Zhou rites as much as possible, if according to the Zhou ceremony, the Son of Heaven has five different sets of regulations for the sacrificial clothes alone, and in the Ming Dynasty have been simplified into a set, that is, the crown clothes.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also set the etiquette for the vassal Goryeo, and gave the king of Goryeo five chapters of uniform, and the etiquette was the same as that of the king of Daming County.

Later, Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne and sent the Goryeo king nine chapters of his uniform, and the courtesy was the same as that of the Prince of Daming, which has since become customized.

This is also the reason why later generations of sticks are so familiar with the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, we gave them all rewards.

With a group of princes, Zhu Zhan Yan followed behind Zhu Gaochi, and the old man at the front, all the way through the noon gate, came to the Sheji Altar on the west side of the Chengtian Gate at the south gate of the palace.

Sacrificing heaven and earth, that is the matter of the Son of Heaven, Zhu Zhanyan came in place of his father, the prince, and could only watch from the sidelines, and only in the end did he salute with the old man and worship heaven and earth.

After sacrificing heaven and earth, Zhu Zhanyan followed the crowd to the Taimiao on the right side and echoed the Sheji altar, and began to worship the ancestors and incense.

This time, Zhu Zhanyan, as a descendant of the Zhu family, couldn't run away.

With the old man performing nine bows to the shrine in the Taimiao, and then following the vassal kings to enter the incense in order, this ended the highlight of the year.

It's just that many people didn't notice that there was one person missing this year: Zhao Wang, Zhu Gaosui.

The war on the grassland did not achieve an inch, and the old man angrily sent an edict to the past, so that he would guard the Great Wall during the New Year.

"Zhan Yan!"

After sacrificing heaven and earth and Taimiao, Zhu Zhanyan wanted to return to the Zongren Mansion with the vassal kings, but was stopped by someone.

(End of chapter)