In the first year of Hongji, the first day of the Lunar New Year, this is destined to be a day of joy. The Great Dynasty Meeting was originally very lively, and the Great Dynasty Meeting in the first year of Hongji was of great significance, after all, it was the first New Year's Day Great Festival of Hongji's accession to the throne.

The eunuchs and palace maids of the Qianqing Palace got Zhu Youzhu's last night

"Year-end bonus", and each person also gets a new set of clothes, so everyone has a big smile on their faces.

In fact, the eunuchs and palace maids don't want much, but now that Zhu Youzhu treats them so well, they naturally have to serve their masters more wholeheartedly.

Zhu Youzhu also changed into a brand new dragon robe today, and rode the dragon chariot to the Fengtian Hall according to the hour, and accepted the worship of civil and military officials on the throne.

This court meeting is mainly composed of two parts: the first half is composed of hundreds of officials to the emperor to congratulate and present gifts, which is called the court's ceremony.

The second half is the emperor's feast, which is called the Great Banquet. During the congratulatory ceremony, Wan An and other officials presented their congratulatory watches, and Wan An sent auspicious gifts: two red rabbits.

This matter is naturally not a surprise, and the red rabbit will only be sent after the report is played in private, and Zhu Youzhang's side has also finalized the corresponding reward Zhu Youzhu is becoming more and more handy about being the emperor, and he is resolutely a boss who can hold the measure.

Xu Pu and other officials looked at the young emperor in front of them, and found that age had become no longer important.

There is a young emperor who has only been on the throne for less than half a year, and he has already completely mastered the court situation, and he has firmly grasped the 12 battalions of the Beijing army.

If they still look at this eighteen-year-old new emperor with their previous eyes and despise this emperor who insisted on killing Qingyun Hou, they can only say that they are indeed incorrigibly stupid.

In this grand court meeting, in addition to civil officials and military officials, foreign envoys can also participate, and the Korean envoy who happened to go to Beijing Cao Shen sentenced Li Yu to participate in this grand court meeting in the first year of Hongzhi.

Similar to the six parts of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea has six Cao, and Cao Zhong has one judge, one senator, and one senator.

Li Yu is very yearning for Chinese culture, and now after learning about the various actions of the new monarchy, he looked at the eighteen-year-old Ming Emperor in front of him with a little jealousy.

Although Zhu Youzhu was slightly surprised by the appearance of the North Korean envoys, he did not take it too seriously, and announced lightly: "Feast!" "Huh?

The civil and military officials present saw Chaoheyi

"It's over", they couldn't help but look at each other, and then they all turned their heads to look at Xu Pu, the leader of the Protector Sect.

Xu Pu naturally knew the meaning of these gazes, but he silently closed his eyes, but he didn't intend to stand up.

According to the normal process, in this courtly ceremony, the new emperor will canonize the empress, and even the crown prince at the same time, but now he was directly jumped by Zhu Youjiao.

This kind of major event is naturally impossible to forget, even if Zhu Youzhu forgets it, someone will keep reminding him, and the only explanation is that Emperor Hongzhi does not intend to canonize the crown princess Zhang Yujiao as the queen.

In fact, Zhu Youzhu did this, and there were already signs, and even many officials knew about it in advance.

Not to mention that after Zhu Youzhu ascended the throne, he did not favor Zhang Yujiao again, and the canonization of the queen had to make some preparations in advance.

It's just that Emperor Hongzhi neither agreed to the request of the Ministry of Rites, nor did he order the preparation of canonization, so naturally he would not canonize the crown princess as the queen today.

This...... The officials present looked at each other, only to find that not only did Xu Pu not stand up, but none of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty stood up to ask for the crown princess.

"Wait for the Lords, thank you!" The sect party headed by Wan An seemed to be a matter of course, and immediately thanked him.

Some people may think that Zhu Youjiao's approach is not in line with etiquette, but the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are unwilling to joke about their careers and bet on a crown princess who is destined to fall out of favor.

Xu Pu, the strongest backing of the Zhang family, has fallen out of favor, and the empress dowager who chose Zhang Yujiao as the crown princess is already inseparable from the emperor, and as for the crown princess Zhang Yujiao, there is nothing to boast about.

Officials at the top did not dare to follow in Li Min's footsteps, while officials at the middle and lower levels might have speculated in previous years, but this year happened to be the year of Jingcha.

The Ming court will evaluate officials every three years, and the assessment of local officials is called external inspection, and the assessment of officials below the fourth grade in the capital is called Jingcha.

The current official secretary Li Yu is a genuine imperial party, if anyone jumps out now, then they will definitely be in the next Jingcha

"Elimination". Ten years of hard work in the cold window, and now is the best golden period for promotion and wealth, who is willing to stake their hard work on a crown princess who knows that she has fallen out of favor?

It is precisely like this that at the court meeting in the first year of Hongzhi, the crown princess Zhang Yujiao was not canonized as the queen as she wished, and the hundred officials chose to remain silent about this.

The banquet on New Year's Day in the Ming Dynasty was planned by the Ministry of Rites, and the Guanglu Temple was responsible for the implementation of specific affairs.

According to the size of the official position, the banquet table is divided into four categories: upper table, upper middle table, middle table, and lower table. The dishes on the table are: tea like raw flowers, five kinds of fruits, five kinds of fried food, phoenix chicken, double stick bones, big silver ingots and big oil cakes, five kinds of wine, four colors of vegetables, three kinds of soup, and two large steamed buns.

Horses, cows, lambs, meat, rice, and wine for five minutes. When it comes to the big banquet, the corresponding etiquette is actually not a lot at all.

According to the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty, the banquet was served nine times, and there was music and dancing during the period. For example, when drinking the first jue wine, you must play "The Song of Bad Luck" and "The Song of Longevity", and at the same time, you must also have the dance of calming the world.

Whether it is a wine or a chopstick, it must be started by the emperor. Zhu Youzhu actually doesn't like these flashy etiquette, but who makes him the biggest beneficiary of etiquette?

The officials who participated in the banquet naturally did not come for food, especially the more high-ranking officials had to be exquisite, so after accepting the emperor's banquet, the minister wrote a poem: "Ten years of empty food in Dingding, it is still difficult for Jun'en to repay a meal."

Zhang Luan, the temple secretary of Honglu Temple, sat at the table, but he didn't have any appetite in the face of the delicacies on the table, and looked at Xu Pu not far away with resentful eyes.

After Xu Pu was a year older, he found that he was powerless for his beautiful concubine, and just now he was too lazy to jump out of the ring to fight.

In the past, it may have been important to support a queen, but now I can't even enter the cabinet, even if I support a queen, what's the use?

It's just that suddenly, the two people who were frustrated noticed that there was a movement above, and when they saw the person who was coming towards Zhu Youjiao, their hearts immediately hung in their voices.

Just when the Forbidden City was enjoying itself, the cold wind was raging at a wharf in Yangzhou Mansion, thousands of miles away, and hundreds of thinly dressed dock workers were loading and unloading goods.

It is not easy to survive in this era, not to mention that there are cannibalistic squires and corrupt officials who do evil in the local area, and there are often all kinds of unpredictable natural disasters.

Due to the disaster in Shandong, a group of Shandong refugees came here to sell coolies. Even though it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, they still had to work hard to eat, and now they were moving wood from nowhere.

The wind was chilly on the first day of the new year, and the wind kept blowing from the river, freezing the hands and feet of the workers who were carrying the timber here were already red.

Two young men were carrying the wood, one sturdy young man working like an ox, but the other handsome young man was crying bitterly.

It's just that this handsome young man who complained about hardship was very resilient, and although he kept shouting that he was tired, he still worked hard to carry the wood that had just been unloaded from the ship.

"Did you hear that?"

"What's the matter?"

"The body of that Chincha-sama has been fished out!"

"Which Chincha-sama? Why can't you understand what you're saying? ”…… A fire was lit in the leeward side of the pier, and some resting workers gathered there to chat and quench their thirst with some hot water.

An old man in a tattered cotton coat came here, and the other workers recognized this person, and a strong man who was a little old next to him shouted to give Hu Ye a place.

Hu Ye looked like an uncle, looking a little arrogant, picked up the firewood next to him and added a piece to it, and then took out the steamed buns he brought and roasted them on the edge of the fire.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva secretly.

"And which Lord Qincha is naturally beheading a group of corrupt officials in Huguang!"

"I heard that Wang Yue is a good official, why did he drown?"

"Huh...... It is the good officials who will drown, if the corrupt officials send money to solve it! ”…… Brother Dog continued the topic just now, and the biggest thing here in Yangzhou today is naturally the Qincha Wang Yue who fell into the water and disappeared, but the latest news just now is that Wang Yue's body was fished out.

"Why hasn't there been any movement from the imperial court for so long?"

"Your Majesty asked the Caoyun Governor's Mansion to look for Wang Yue along the river at that time, and I heard that Qin would be sent down to investigate!"

"It's useless for anyone to come down, corrupt officials come down and are fed with silver, and clean officials are afraid of another knife when they come down!" …… The few people around the fire seemed to have seen through this era, and they couldn't help but be disheartened when they thought of those corrupt officials in Yangzhou who kept beautiful concubines in their homes.

Brother Dog, who has been talking eloquently, sighed lightly, and said with a full of grievances: "Lao Tzu honestly lives by drying salt, but it turns out that there is a stove chief above, a general urge above the society, and an ambassador and deputy envoy in the salt field

"Master Dog, didn't you say that you always urged you to set fire to your house and burn your mother to death, so you ran out to complain? Why don't you sue now? A young man next to him asked curiously, drinking hot water.

When Brother Dog heard this, he gritted his teeth angrily and said: "I want to sue, but these moths have long been in collusion with the government, can I sue and win?" When the people present heard this, they couldn't help but sigh silently again, the officialdom of Yangzhou had already become a group.

"Here, everyone gets a point!" Hu Ye baked a few steamed buns and said generously. The people present had already smelled the fragrance of steamed buns, so they naturally divided them unceremoniously, just one and a half, and Brother Dog handed more and more half back to Hu Ye very authentically.

Hu Ye took the steamed bun and ate it, and said to the honest middle-aged man in front of him: "The old man knows a little physiognomy, if you go to Yangzhou next month to complain, you will definitely be able to find someone to uphold justice for you!" ”

"If that's the case, I'll treat you to dog meat!" Brother Dog's eyes lit up, and he said that he was authentic.

Hu Ye looked at the dog brother in front of him strangely, but nodded very happily: "Okay, then say a word for the people!" It was at this moment that two young men came to the fire, and one of them, a handsome young man, looked at Hu Ye with a resentful look.

"Master Hu, you have raised two capable good grandsons, I'll go get busy first!" Brother Dog looked embarrassed and put the rest of the steamed bun in his mouth, and then hurriedly left here.

When the other workers who were eating steamed buns saw two young men appear, and they had already drunk hot water to quench their thirst, they took their leave and left the fire.

It's just that the workers who left looked at Hu Ye with very complicated eyes, although they liked Hu Ye's generosity, but this old man was squeezing two capable grandsons every day to slap his swollen face and become fat.

"Where's the bamboo sticks?" Hu Ye spread his hands, but he asked the two grandsons directly. The handsome young man slapped all the bamboo sticks and prepared to boil water to drink.

"Why are there so few today?" Hu Ye looked at the bamboo stick in his hand, looking dissatisfied. The handsome young man scooped up the water and said indignantly, "Why don't you try it tomorrow?" ”

"The wind blew tears in his eyes, and the frost froze into ice on his beard. I remember passing through this place last year, the iron clothes sweated bitterly. You haven't been to the borderland, what are you doing with this little hardship? Hu Ye counted the bamboo sticks in his hand, which was a sermon of the text.

"Wang Da...... Grandpa, Hu Yu is really not lazy, but he is not used to it! Hu Jun handed over all the bamboo sticks in his hand to Hu Ye, but he helped speak.

"You have a good harvest today, you wait here, I'll go exchange money and come back!" When Hu Ye saw Hu Jun's bamboo stick, he immediately straightened his waist and said.

In the last attack, the other party actually dispatched hundreds of people, which made him realize that the water in Yangzhou was much deeper than he imagined, and even more dangerous than he imagined.

Faced with this terrible situation, he chose to plan at that time. Lu Song, a hundred households in Jinyi, reported that he was missing from the water, and he disguised himself as a Shandong refugee to enter the Yangzhou territory, but he wanted to get a good touch of the bottom.

The leader in charge of the dock handling is surnamed Li, and he is nicknamed One-Eyed Li because he is blind in one eye, but in front of these coolies, he is naturally Master Li.

"Yes, your two grandsons are really good at work!" The one-eyed Li finished clearing the bamboo sticks, and even settled the silver money.

When Wang Yue took the money and silver, he stuffed back several copper coins and said, "Master Li, please take care of any good work in the future!" ”

"Now that a lot of people have gone back, tonight is indeed a good job, but the mouth must be tight, do you want to let your two grandchildren try it?" One-eyed Li's heart moved slightly, and he asked.

Wang Yue knew that the private salt factory he had been looking for had an eyebrow, and he secretly said happily: "The old man can also come!" ”

"You'd better forget it! Don't talk about whether people want it or not, you still have to live a few more years with your bones! The one-eyed Li looked at Wang Yue in front of him with disdain, even if he disliked the authenticity.

Wang Yue knew that he could only rely on his grandson to track down the matter of the private salt farm, so he immediately nodded happily and said, "Okay, then I will let Hu Yu and Hu Jun's two grandsons come over on time tonight to listen to your dispatch!" ”