The twenty-sixth year of Hongwu ended with a grand Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, the first day of the first month.

In the morning, Fengtian Hall was lively again and congratulated on New Year's Day.

All civil and military officials wear red official robes that symbolize auspiciousness.

Everyone's face was beaming.

Because after the court, it's a holiday!

There are very few statutory holidays for Ming officials, only the winter solstice and the New Year's Day.

Zhengdan is the beginning of the year, that is, the first day of the new year.

Every year's New Year's Day, starting from the first day of the new year, civil and military officials have a five-day holiday.

The Winter Solstice Festival starts today and has a three-day holiday.

The holiday of the Hongwu Dynasty is only eight days!

During the five-day holiday for the New Year, you don't have to worry about anything, and it's comfortable to think about.

Therefore, on the day of the New Year's Day, during the celebration of the hundred officials, everyone showed joy and joy from the heart.

In history, after Zhu Di became emperor, he added a ten-day holiday for the Lantern Festival.

Later Ming emperors successively improved statutory holidays, such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and also added three days of monthly leave, and officials could take about 50 days of paid leave throughout the year.

Zhengdan Dynasty, in addition to the hundred officials to congratulate, there are also envoys of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yunxi didn't see much.

Mainly Korea, Java, Champong, Siam, Ryukyu and other neighboring vassal states close to each other.

There are currently more than 20 vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

But only a few came, just because Lao Zhu had previously closed the city, and he stopped paying tribute for a time due to the plague.

Now the Ming Dynasty has opened the sea and set up many city divisions, but the news has not yet reached overseas countries.

Zhu Yunxi made a rough calculation, and waited for Ma He's fleet to walk around the sea, and at least thirty envoys from other countries could come on New Year's Day next year.

Historically, after Zheng He went to the West, the influence of the Ming Dynasty reached its peak, and there were as many as 140 tributary states recorded in documents such as the Ming Huidian.

In terms of overseas influence, it is the best in ancient and modern times.

The emperor received worship in the previous dynasty, and the queen also held a congratulatory ceremony in Kunning Palace, and all the concubines and important ministers and wives of the harem had to go to Kunning Palace to meet them.

However, Queen Ma died for many years.

In order to maintain the relationship between the royal family and the officials, the rules remain the same.

It's just that the woman entered the palace, and the objects of the visit were changed to Concubine Guo Ning, who was in charge of the sixth palace, and the crown princess Lu.

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Every year, on the first day of the first day, the civil and military ministers first go to the Fengtian Temple to worship the emperor, and then go to the East Palace to worship the prince.

Most emperors were worried that their team would fall to the prince, so they would generally set up a separate team for the prince, and the personnel needed to be personally selected by the emperor to achieve the purpose of control.

But Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxi basically share the same team.

Completely undefended!

Today's six departments, Du Ze, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, were directly brought up from the East Palace.

Not only that, as long as the ministers of the DPRK and China do not support the imperial grandson, Lao Zhu will give him a cold bench.

Those who oppose the emperor's grandson will be killed!

This was the case with the last Jiuqing purge.

East Palace, Spring and Hall.

It was unimaginably lively, and civil officials and military attachés gathered together.

Everything that can be reached, it has arrived.

The East Palace can be called spacious, but on this day, it has a sense of crowding and narrowness.

"Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Grand Sun!"

The sound of the tide resounded through the hall.

Zhu Yunxi sat high in the hall and accepted the worship of hundreds of officials.

He nodded slowly and said loudly: "Congratulations to me!" ”

……

After the ceremony, the unfamiliar officials left the venue as usual.

The descendants of the emperor's grandson stayed and gathered together.

Most of them are military generals.

They were all dressed in red robes and dresses, and they all looked like the bridegroom's officials.

Especially Lan Yu, this husband is dressed in a red robe, and he can't cross his waist at every turn when he speaks, which is quite funny.

"Brother Zhang, the matter between Cao Bing, the eldest son of Benhou, and Gui Qianjin has been decided like this."

Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen said to Heqing Hou Zhang Yi.

"Okay, I'll talk to my insiders when I go back."

Cao was shocked and said, "Hey, do you still have to tell your wife about this?" Brother Zhang, you're not afraid of your wife, are you? ”

Heqinghou Zhang Yi suddenly blushed: "Nonsense! Lao Tzu is not afraid! ”

Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, he continued: "My daughter looks like a fairy, gentle and dignified, how can I cheap your dog for nothing, I have to see if your kid is worthy!" ”

Cao Zhen replied: "You! I might as well tell you that my son Cao Bingna is a talent, and everyone loves him! ”

"Don't brag, let your son go to the barracks another day, and I'll test him personally!" Heqinghou is a serious and authentic person.

Go to the barracks......

The crowd burst into laughter.

has already made up the situation of Heqinghou testing his son-in-law's physical fitness.

They were talking and laughing.

I heard someone again: "Marquis of the Boat, I heard that your family is engaged in the shipping business, and you have a wide network of contacts in the business field?" ”

Zhu Shou, the Marquis of the Boat, said: "If you have something to say, you are like a girl!" ”

Today's Zhu Shou is a wealthy man among the nobles.

With the opening of the sea by the imperial court, his fleet grew larger and larger, and tens of thousands of taels of silver came in every month.

Envy of all the nobles.

Puding Marquis Chen Huan clasped his hands and grinned at Zhu Shou: "Hehe, I still want to ask you for help with something...... My cousin's cousin's nephew in charge wants to buy a few sea boats, but I don't know your ......."

Zhu Shou took a sip of tea slowly and said, "Hehe, you can, wait until I go back and talk to the clerk of my subordinate's deputy, it's a small matter!" ”

“......”

Zhu Shou never revealed the secret that the imperial grandson was the big boss.

"These three media and six hires can't be sloppy......"

While talking and laughing, the family affairs of the Marquis of Jingchuan Cao Zhen to the Zhang Yi family of the Marquis of Heqing have been decided.

Heqinghou didn't mention the test of his son-in-law.

Seeing them talking freely, Zhu Yunxi was greatly moved.

Thinking about history, most of these guys were purged by Lao Zhu Yibo in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, and they raided their homes and exterminated their clans.

Now he is jumping in front of him.

His own appearance saved the Ming military generals group and changed history!

When people are old, they like to talk about their youth, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.

In the past few days of the northern tour, Zhu Yunxi has been with the Qianqing Palace every day and listened to the stories of Lao Zhu.

Especially the history at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which talks the most.

"Expelling Hulu, restoring China, establishing a program of Chen Ji, and relieving the people."

This is not a slogan that Zhu Yuanzhang shouted casually.

The significance of this is very significant.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, China faced a serious problem.

The Han nationality in the north and south is divided!

From 936 A.D., Shi Jingjiao proclaimed himself emperor and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan.

By 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to recover the cut-off.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been under the rule of the Hu people for 432 years.

The land of the Sixteen Prefectures included the northern part of present-day Beijing and Tianjin, as well as the northern part of Hebei and the northern part of Shanxi.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin people went south to cause the shame of Jingkang and occupied half of the country.

And then to the Yuan Dynasty, which was ruled by the Mongols.

The entire Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty lasted only 400 years in total, which promoted the entire Chinese nation to gradually produce a unified national identity and become the Han nationality.

And one place has been separated from Han rule for more than 400 years.

In fact, the four-class system implemented by the Yuan Dynasty (the four classes are: Mongols, Semu, Han, and Nanren) has made it politically clear that the Han (northerners) and the southerners are two different races.

By the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people in the north and the Han people in the south were actually almost two ethnic groups in terms of national identity.

For example, the Korean and Korean nations, it has only been a few years, and there is already a big difference.

Compared with dominating the world and establishing the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's greatest contribution is to restore China and bridge the gap between the north and the south!

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the first thing Zhu Yuanzhang did was to formulate the "Ming Collection Ceremony" and restore the etiquette culture of the Han nationality.

From all aspects such as clothing, it is mandatory!

In terms of language, Hu language was eliminated, and "Hongwu Zhengyun" was established to promote official language.

In this environment, how difficult it is for Daming to expand its territory!