On the twelfth day of March in the sixth year of Wanli, when people in the capital were just feeling the warm spring breeze, Zhu Yijun took Zhuang Jingjia, who was slightly pregnant, to the outskirts of the capital to worship the ancestors and perform the land ceremony.
During this trip, Zhu Yijun finally realized his dream when he first left the palace and was frozen by the horse carriage. After years of research and development, and with the efforts of steel plants and scientific researchers, the imperial government finally made a four-wheeled carriage.
Four-wheeled carriages existed in the Song Dynasty in China, with a carrying capacity of more than fifty stones. However, due to poor road conditions, their applicability was far less widespread than that of two-wheeled carriages, and skilled craftsmen lacked the motivation to improve them. As a result, until after the founding of the People's Republic of China,
In the 1950s, four-wheeled carriages in rural areas of China still could not turn.
Inspired by Zhu Yijun, the steering problem of the four-wheeled carriage was quickly solved. The shaft and the two front wheels were made together, and the rear carriage was connected with a rotating shaft suspension.
The most difficult part is shock absorption. After testing, if the new four-wheeled carriage wants to meet Zhu Yijun's design indicators, it must reach a speed of more than thirty miles per hour. At this speed, only cowhide belts are used for suspension and "futu" on the wheel axles.
Shock absorbers are far from comfortable.
Of course, Zhu Yijun knew that the core lies in the spring, and the core of making the spring lies in the material. Materials science in this era is basically similar to metaphysics. Anyway, it is constant experimentation, and in the end, materials close to the ideal can always be obtained, and the facts are not what Zhu Yijun expected.
.
To Zhu Yijun's surprise, the Institute of Physics of the Institute of Physics finally discovered "Hooke's Law" after research, and this space-time was named "Wang Yu's Law". After research, researcher Wang Yu discovered that the elastic force of the spring is related to the spring's
The shape is directly proportional - just such a short conclusion, Wang Yu's name will be left in history, and his salary will be doubled directly.
With the shock absorption and steering mechanism, the manufacture of four-wheeled carriages was a matter of course. As a result, the Ming Dynasty's luxurious carriages were born in the fifth year of Wanli. They quickly became popular in the capital and radiated outwards.
...
Wanli's five-year reform also gave Zhu Yijun the name to reform the emperor's chariots. The large and small horse chariots and chariots were not very warm, so Zhu Yijun proposed reforms. Without the great cause of reform, the ministers who maintained the authority of the emperor's etiquette system would not have been able to do anything.
I want to risk my life with Zhu Yijun.
Finally, with the joint efforts of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Household, the emperor's four-wheeled carriage was finally finalized: the emperor's four-wheeled carriage could not be changed, and there was no limit to the number of carriages the emperor wanted. The maximum number of carriages used by princes and ministers was four - five horses were used.
Even if you have a disloyal heart.
As for the decoration of the carriage, the imaginative officials of the Ministry of Etiquette found many ways to make it conform to the ancient etiquette and keep warmth at the same time - they also formulated the decoration style and driving etiquette of the emperor's carriage.
All in all, during this trip in March of the sixth year of Wanli, the emperor and empress took a comfortable carriage to their destination, the "Xiannong Altar" three kilometers southwest of Zhengyangmen.
...
The Xiannong Altar was called Shanchuan Altar in the fourth year of Wanli, and was renamed in the fourth year of Wanli. Zhu Yijun did not understand why the Ministry of Rites changed its name, but he had no need to object to commemorating Shennong.
In addition to the main hall for worshiping Shennong, Xiannong Altar also has several magnificent palaces for the emperor to change his clothes and rest. In front of the main hall, there is a farming viewing platform. In front of the farming viewing platform is the venue where Zhu Yijun will perform, with a total of one acre and seventy percent cultivated land.
.
Originally, this piece of land was only one-third of an acre, which is the origin of the saying "one-third of an acre". The so-called "one-third of an acre" refers to the thirteen provinces in the world. Each province is represented by one point here, which shows that the emperor placed
All the land in the world has been plowed.
However, after the development of the Northeast, one mu and three-quarters could no longer represent the seventeen provinces. Therefore, after the Ministry of Rites proposed and Zhu Yijun approved, the cultivated land owned by the emperor Tian Li became one mu and seven-cents.
Zhu Yijun was happy to see this. He felt from the bottom of his heart that this form was very good. The size of the land should have become a variable and a standard for assessing the quality of the emperor in the future.
The emergence of Zhuang Jingjia's home field ceremony is also a change in the etiquette system. According to etiquette, the queen does not participate in the home field ceremony-this is the gift of the emperor. The queen personally presides over it is called the "Silkworm Kissing Ceremony", which is held at the east end of Taiye Pond in Xiyuan
A silkworm altar was held, and the married woman accompanied her.
However, Zhu Yijun still brought Zhuang Jingjia, who was slightly pregnant, to participate, and asked the Ministry of Rites to arrange some scenes for Zhuang Jingjia. The Ministry of Rites had no choice but to wait for the emperor to push the plow three times and return it three times, while the queen was with her concubines (Mrs. Zhang Juzheng and the British Duchess).
Accompanied by the emperor, he followed the emperor and symbolically sprinkled three handfuls of seeds, which became a ritual.
The queen's public appearance at the home ceremony naturally created a new trend in the empire. Zhu Yijun did not explain this, but used a silent political statement to inform the world: the bad rule of not allowing women to appear in public was not advocated by the royal family.
It is worth mentioning that this Jitian ceremony is also the first Jitian ceremony that Zhu Yijun has participated in, because an emperor who does not get married does not have this political activity. When the two got married last year, they had already gone through the Jitian ceremony.
days.
The queen who participated in the Tiantian Ceremony and revealed her pregnancy also sent a clear signal to the world that the emperor was about to have an heir, and a stable imperial line was a happy event worth celebrating for the people of the world - at least, the emperor's eldest son
When the child is born, there may be a wave of amnesty. Even if the emperor's eldest daughter is born, it proves that the emperor is a man with normal fertility. As long as he is healthy, why don't the princes have children together?
After completing the birth ceremony, the empress returned in a luxurious eight-horse carriage, which could be regarded as another live advertisement for the four-wheeled carriage in the capital.
Zhu Yijun returned to the palace and issued an edict to encourage farmers in the sixth year of Wanli. It only said one sentence: "Tell the people every time: The soil is moist now, so you must take advantage of the opportunity to cultivate and don't be lazy."
This type of edict has been issued almost every month since the sixth year of Wanli, and has been issued until the winter months. For example, the edict in April is like this: "Tell the people every time: It is better to work diligently in agriculture during the time, and not to be lazy."
In May, he said, "Every time I tell the people: Now that the seedlings are in full bloom, they must take advantage of the opportunity to hoe and not be lazy." During this period, there were also summer edicts to encourage farmers, and they were all in one sentence - until November: "Said
Every time I tell the people: Farm work has been completed, everyone should take care of themselves and save money."
With this edict, local officials have a legal basis when they persuade farmers. Farmers who are lazy at home and leave their fields uncultivated will be guilty of a crime: in serious terms, they disobey the edict.
...
The time soon entered May, and the hot capital became lively: Taizu divided the world, and after Chengzu cut down the feudal vassals, all the princes and princes who could never enter the capital were ordered to come to the capital to participate in the imperial vassal meeting.
Thirty-two princes, hundreds of county princes, and generals and below participated in the sect-vassal conference. They were not qualified to participate in the sect-vassal conference. They could only pray at home that the head of the family would protect their interests.
The edict summoning them for a meeting was issued after the New Year. Within a few months, Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun studied repeatedly and finally finalized the overall clan reform.
This reform, which involves the personal interests of the royal clan, not only requires a strong central government, but also needs to provide an alternative to those whose interests have been harmed. Otherwise, Zhu Yijun will lose points politically, and it is very easy for the clan to jump over the wall.
It's easy to be taken advantage of.
Starting from the second half of the fifth year of Wanli, newspapers and public opinion in various places have broken down and analyzed the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty clan, and put forward countless solutions to the clan's future, especially the problem of poor clans.
After the kings gathered in the capital, everyone communicated and found out that the imperial court's policy was already clear: the upper level of the clan would be divided and disintegrated, the middle level and above would be demoted by exchanging shares for titles, and the lower level would liberate the clan and make a living on their own after a few years of subsidies.
.——No one was able to resist the upright conspiracy. They said they were having a meeting and just came to Beijing to hear an announcement.