Early the next morning, before dawn, many eunuchs and maidens were already busy in the Forbidden City, the center of the Ming Dynasty. Today was no different than in the past, and the busiest place in the palace turned out to be the Wenhua Hall, which was usually a little deserted.
The Wenhua Hall was built in the 18th year of Yongle. It is located east of the Union Gate of the Outer Dynasty and opposite the Wuying Hall in the east and west. Because it is located in the east of the Forbidden City, it was once the place where the prince took care of affairs. According to the five elements, the east belongs to wood, and the color is
Green represents growth, so the roof of the palace used by the prince is covered with green glazed tiles.
Wenhua Hall was originally the imperial palace of the emperor. In the Tianshun and Chenghua dynasties, before the prince Jian Zuo, he first took charge of affairs in the Wenhua Hall. Later, because most of the princes were young, they could not actually participate in political affairs, especially when Emperor Jiajing came.
The emperor who hoped for immortality simply refused to ennoble the prince, so in the 15th year of Jiajing's reign, it was changed to the emperor's banquet hall, and later to the place for sutras and banquets. The building was then changed to a yellow glazed tile roof. In the 17th year of Jiajing's reign, another building was built behind the hall.
The Holy Temple was built.
Generally speaking, the Wenhua Palace was the palace where the emperor listened to Hanlin scholars' lectures at banquets, where the prince went to study, and where he supervised the country. It was also the palace where the emperor occasionally visited the palace.
The main hall of Wenhua Hall is an I-shaped plane. The front hall is Wenhua Hall, facing south, five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with yellow glazed tiles resting on the top of the mountain. In the bright room, there are six doors with three crosses and six bowls of water chestnuts.
There are sill windows between the rooms and tips, each with four three-crossed six-bowl water chestnut windows. The east and west gables also have one window each. From the platform in front of the hall, there is a corridor leading directly to the Wenhua Gate. The back hall is called Zhujing.
The structure of the hall is slightly similar to that of Wenhua Hall, but it is deeper and shallower. The front and rear halls are connected by corridors. The east and west side halls are Bunren Hall and Jiyi Hall respectively.
The Ming Dynasty has the position of "Wenhuadian Grand Scholar", whose theoretical responsibility is to tutor the prince in his studies. Of course, in reality this is a false position. Wenhuadian Grandmaster is one of the elders, and of course he will not directly teach the prince.
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By the way, among the bachelors of the Ming Dynasty, the bachelor of Zhongji Palace (Huagai Palace) was usually the first assistant, the bachelor of Jianji Palace (Jinshen Palace) was the second assistant, and the remaining few elders were arranged according to the order of Wenhua Palace.
, Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Dong Pavilion were sorted and moved from high to low, and the Wenhua Hall Grand Scholar was ranked third, which shows that the weight is not low.
The entire northeastern part of Xiehemen in Donghua Gate is a building complex with Wenhua Hall as the main body. The building is magnificent, but the palace appearance is simple. There is no plaque in Wenhua Hall, but there are Jingyi Hall, Gongmo Room, and Jiuwu Zhai in the east and west side halls.
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Because the Wenhua Hall is close to the offices and cabinets of the auxiliary ministers, if the emperor is diligent in governing, he will often think about government affairs in the Wenhua Hall. For example, Renzong once posted a list of important officials on the west wall of Fengtianmen. Under Yingzong, it was changed to
In the Wenhua Hall, the names of central and local civil and military officials were posted, as was Xiaozong. However, when he arrived at Longqing, although the emperor still complied with the instructions, he spent very little time in the Wenhua Hall - after all, in Longqing's view, he
As long as you use the right ministers, you can basically control the general trend of the world. As an emperor, you don't need to worry about everything.
The small hall behind the Wenhua Hall is called the Jade Restaurant, and in the northwest is a simple wooden hut called Shengcuoju. The reason why it is a simple wooden hut is because whenever the country encounters a major disaster, the emperor
It is necessary to cultivate the province here. However, the symbolic significance of this place is much higher than the actual significance. In history, it was almost during the Chongzhen period. Due to the constant border chaos and domestic wars, Emperor Chongzhen came to the province many times to live in penance and practice hard. He wanted to reflect on his own
He made mistakes to eliminate the war, but before him, this house was almost built in vain. Therefore, Gao Pingshi always believed that Chongzhen was an emperor who was unable to turn the tide, but was really determined to govern.
It stands to reason that the princes of the Ming Dynasty must begin to systematically receive the influence of Confucian classics at the earliest age of five and at the latest thirteen years old. The professional term is called "leaving the cabinet to lecture." The ceremony of the prince leaving the cabinet to lecture is similar to the emperor's classics.
The banquet lecture ceremony was also held in the Wenhua Hall. From then on, the prince's master, selected by the emperor, tutored the prince in reading every day in the east wing of the Wenhua Hall.
When the crown prince reaches the age of fourteen, he will usually hold a crowning ceremony to mark his adulthood. The crowning ceremony is also held in the Wenhua Hall.
Even when the emperor was seriously ill, the crown prince was sometimes ordered to attend court on behalf of the emperor at the Wenhua Hall. For example, when Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty was critically ill, he "ordered the crown prince to temporarily pay homage to the Wenhua Hall, and all civil and military officials visited the crown prince as usual."
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There is of course a reason why the Wenhua Palace is so lively today: the emperor will visit the Wenhua Palace together with the crown prince and the crown prince’s biological mother, the imperial concubine Li, and the children of the family who are in the fifth class and are recommended by the third-rank civil servants in the capital will
Under their personal selection, a prince's companion was born.
This was actually the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, only Zhu Yuanzhang had selected some top students in the Imperial College to serve as Prince Zhu Biao and others. However, there are two points to be explained: First, these top students in the Imperial College were all adults, and they were said to be companions.
Reading, in fact, plays more of a role as a teacher; secondly, this system gradually turned into the current Jingyanjin Lectures, but the level of selection was higher. Basically, they were selected from the Hanlin Academy, and they were serious
A teacher is usually called a Jingyanri lecturer or something like that, but other titles are also added, such as a bachelor's degree.
But this time, because only "young children" were selected, they were not asked to give lectures to the prince, but simply to "accompany him in reading", so the age of the selected candidates was limited to "similar to the prince."
Of course, "similar" is a very inaccurate term, but since the emperor's holy intention was expressed in this way, the people below had to "understand it on their own." Generally speaking, the age must not be more than three years old, otherwise... even if it is placed on folk children,
There's no way we can talk together. But since the prince's age is there, and he is three years younger than the prince, there is no need to consider it - you may not be able to speak clearly, why do you want to accompany him to study?
Coupled with the private news from the father-in-law Li Wei, everyone agreed that the emperor was clearly hinting to the ministers: Don't send too many people to me!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is actually understandable to everyone. After all, our Emperor is always intolerant of details. If there are too many people, the entire Wenhua Palace will be filled.
Full, one can imagine how bad the mood of His Majesty the Emperor would be. Although the civil servants were not very afraid of this emperor who was far less domineering than his father, there were also people they were afraid of - Gao Gong, for example.
I don’t know where the news came from, saying that Gao Gong had a nephew named Gao pragmatic. He left the capital not long ago to go to another courtyard, and encountered a robbery by Bailixia thieves on the way. The nephew of Mr. Gao Ge actually pretended to be a boy.
At a young age, he calmly commanded the servants to resist for a long time. By chance, Liu Xian and his son, the former general of the Langshan Army, were passing by with more than 20 servants. With the cooperation of the two, they actually defeated a group of thieves several times their size.
This was already remarkable enough, but he didn't want it to be even more bizarre after that: Gao Pingshi said to Liu Xian, "I would like to use the strength of the people to help the general complete his victory in one battle and eliminate this huge harm to the capital." He then praised the strategy and proposed a method to defeat the enemy.
Liu Xian was also a man of great skill and courage, so he actually agreed, and with the two to three hundred men provided by Gao pragmatism, he went to conquer Baili Gorge.
I don’t know whether it was Gao Pingshi Zanhua’s strategy that was really powerful, or Liu Xianwei’s reputation was so great, but after a period of operations that no one knew the details of, the Bailixia giant invaders actually surrendered...
With the appointment of Liu Yingjie, the governor of Shuntian, Liu Xian became famous in Beijing, and Gao Pragmatic also became famous immediately - he did not personally lead the troops to suppress the bandits, but a child of only a few years old could do this
To what extent, who is so shameless can still say more?
Considering Gao Gong's status in the emperor's mind, everyone had a better idea. Now it was time to see what the selection would look like today.
