Chapter 5 The First Dynasty of the New Emperor
"Hurry, hurry! Don't delay!"
In the Beijing city of Shuntian Prefecture, when the bells kept ringing in the city, all the officials in the capital had to get up early and hurried to the Forbidden City.
No one could have imagined that Zhu Changluo, who had only ascended the throne for a month, would die in such a confused way.
Everyone was in a hurry. More than 2,000 officials in Beijing rushed to the Forbidden City from all over the capital. There might even be car crashes and traffic jams on the road.
This was because Wanli had not been in court for a long time and there was a shortage of officials in the capital, less than three thousand.
The fifth- and sixth-grade civil servants riding horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts were extremely anxious, but the officials of seventh-grade and lower grades who rode horses and donkeys rushed to the front at this time.
Soon, these officials saw the left gate of Chang'an and the right gate of Chang'an in the distance.
These two gates are the main gates leading to the government offices from the imperial city. There is a huge stone tablet erected in front of the gate. If you look closely, you can see that there are 8 large characters engraved on it: "Officials and others, please dismount here", and the Han general also carried He signaled the officials to dismount.
Officials who were accustomed to the process of going to court dismounted one after another. At this time, someone would come to hold the horse. After verifying their identities, they hurriedly walked into the imperial city.
Crowds of hundreds of people walked into Chang'an Gate one after another, along Chang'an Street, which was later known as "Wulong Bridge", and went up to Wulong Bridge. After checking their identities again at the gate of Chengtian Gate, they then entered Duanmen and Meridian Gate...
At every city gate, identity verification and body searches are required.
After they passed the Meridian Gate, they came to the Inner Wulong Bridge. After crossing the Wulong Bridge, they saw the Han general Lu Wenzhao who was on duty here and a group of imperial guards.
"After the late emperor passed away, after you enter Fengtianmen, you should be careful in your words and deeds, and don't behave like the past!"
Lu Wenzhao wears a waistband given by Zhu Youxiao on his waist, and wears the clothes of hundreds of Jin Yiwei, but he commands nearly a thousand Jin Yiwei in the imperial city.
He announced with a serious expression that these civil servants were afraid that another official who was not afraid of death would cause some trouble after entering Fengtian Gate.
After hearing this, all the officials bowed their heads one after another, but kept muttering in their hearts, feeling very strange.
Just because Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, stayed overnight in the outer court last night. According to common sense, even if he didn't come forward for such a scene, a commander from the fourth rank should be sent instead of a sixth rank like Lu Wenzhao. Hundreds of Jinyiwei.
However, although all the officials felt strange, they did not dare to question him.
After all, the words "Jinyiwei" are really scary. It's okay for those senior officials above the fourth rank, but they are petty officials who can only obey the orders honestly.
All the civil servants, led by Lu Wenzhao and Jin Yiwei, entered the square in front of the Huangji Palace one after another. Unfortunately, the once prosperous Huangji Palace was now very dilapidated and empty.
Since the square in front of the Wenhua Hall could not accommodate that many people, they could only stand in line behind a wall.
Lu Wenzhao looked solemn and carefully inspected all the officials in front of Fengtian Gate.
He looked at the former high-ranking civil servants smiling apologetically under his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in his heart.
But this sense of satisfaction came in an instant, just because he understood that everything he had was given by Zhu Youjian.
Just now, Fang Congzhe asked officials in Beijing to enter the court. Before Luo Sigong could step forward, Zhu Youjian spoke in Zhu Youxiao's ear, and then handed him the task of guarding Fengtian Gate.
Lu Wenzhao was very grateful to Zhu Youjian for his kindness. At this time, all the officials in Beijing entered Fengtian Gate.
"close the door!"
As Lu Wenzhao spoke, the Fengtian Gate was closed, and he also rushed towards the Wenhua Palace. Finally, he came to the door of the Wenhua Palace and stood there, looking intently at the outside of the hall, his ears always paying attention to the text.
Inside the palace.
Boom--boom--boom--
"Go to court~~~"
clang--
"Long live Long live Long live……"
With the sound of three-way drums, the Prime Minister of Honglu Temple sang a salute loudly, and then the general of the Han Dynasty rang the bell, and all the officials once again shouted "Long Live the Mountain" and saluted neatly.
"rise……"
The Prime Minister of Honglu Temple sang the salute again, and two rows of Han generals waved their pure whips made of yellow silk, which made an explosive sound in the air.
Cleaning the whip at the beginning of the dynasty is a procedure that existed in the previous dynasties. The purpose is to warn the ministers that the emperor has arrived and important ceremonies are about to begin. Everyone should stop talking immediately, keep quiet, and return to their respective places.
Logically speaking, after the cleansing ceremony, the Prime Minister of Honglu Temple still needs to sing "Enter the class" before the door can be opened and all officials can enter the palace.
However, since the Huangji Palace has not yet been repaired, the temporary court meeting was held in the Wenhua Palace. Therefore, the more than two thousand officials standing in the Huangji Palace Square could only bow to the air again and again.
On the other hand, in the Wenhua Hall, since the ministers of the fifth rank and above had entered the Wenhua Hall early, business matters could be discussed directly.
At this moment, Zhu Youjian was standing on the left side of the imperial case, and next to him was Zhu Youxiao, who was wearing a bloated crown.
In the time just now, the great eunuch Wang An found the emperor's crown uniform worn by Zhu Changluo a month ago from the Qianqing Palace, and hurriedly brought it to Zhu Youxiao to wear.
However, due to Zhu Youxiao's young age and not being as tall as Zhu Changluo, the crown robe was loose and without dignity.
In order to maintain the majesty of the emperor, Fang Congzhe and others had no choice but to add two more layers of clothes to the crown robe to support the crown robe.
Zhu Youjian also put on his royal crown uniform, and then turned to look at Zhu Youxiao.
I saw that my royal brother was sweating profusely, his forehead was covered with sweat beads, and he was obviously very hot.
Seeing Zhu Youjian looking at him, he specially smiled at Zhu Youjian, as if to say "I'm fine."
Seeing this, Zhu Youjian didn't know what to say, he just looked at the officials in front of him.
However, when he glanced around, a eunuch in his fifties who was wearing a royal robe, without facial hair, stood out particularly.
Feeling the eyes of others, he slowly raised his head, met Zhu Youjian's eyes, and then bowed his head honestly as a salute.
This old eunuch is currently the leader of the eunuchs in the palace, the eunuch Wang An, the eunuch Bingbi.
If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, when he was in his early twenties, he was appointed by Emperor Wanli to be Zhu Changluo's companion.
When Concubine Zheng was planning to make Prince Fu Zhu Changxun the crown prince, he was the one who protected Zhu Changluo.
After Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, he promoted him to the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and he persuaded Zhu Changluo to reuse Yang Lian, Liu Yishen and others of the Donglin Party.
It's just that his position as Chief of Ceremonies and Eunuch Bingbi has not yet become popular. Zhu Changluo passed away because of Hong Wan. He had no choice but to join Zhu Youxiao halfway, handle the palace transfer case, and move Li Xuanshi out of Qianqing Palace.
However, after Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family gained power, he was killed due to a power struggle.
Regarding this person, Zhu Youjian was also struggling with whether to save him or not.
If Wang An is willing to take refuge with him, then with Zhu Youxiao's reliance on him and his identity as the only biological brother, it will be relatively easy for him to save Wang An.
But if Wang An is unwilling to surrender to him, then there is nothing to say.
With this in mind, Zhu Youjian looked at the officials and saw that they were chatting lively.
After listening carefully, he realized that it was officials from the Ministry of Rites who were discussing Zhu Changluo's posthumous title and where he was buried.
When Zhu Youjian came to his senses, officials from the Ministry of Rites, Fang Congzhe and others from the cabinet, as well as Zhu Changluo's posthumous title and temple name, were finalized.
The temple name is Guangzong, and his posthumous title is "Emperor Chongtian, Qidao, Yingrui, Gongchunxian, Wenjing, Wuyuan, Renyi, Xiaozhen", which is consistent with history.
Neither Zhu Youjian nor Zhu Youxiao had any idea about this temple name and posthumous title. Anyway, Zhu Changluo was not good to them, and even worse, he had the hatred of killing his mother.
Chapter completed!