The ceremony of entering the palace is to send officials to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, the ancestral temple, and the state of the country. After passing through the Daming Gate and entering the Meridian Gate, they first go to the Wenhua Hall to review the draft of the enthronement edict and decide on the reign name. Then they go to the Huagai Hall to put on mourning clothes and pay homage to Emperor Daxing. After receiving the order, he went to the Fengtian Hall, put on his robes and crown, and paid homage to his ancestors.
Then comes the enthronement ceremony, which is even more complicated.
At this moment, the enthronement ceremony has been running without stopping, and no one is interested in arguing about anything anymore.
The people of the Qintian Prison have to set the time drums, the Honglu Temple has to set up the table, the Jiaofang Secretary has to arrange the rituals and music, and the Jin Yiwei has to prepare the clouds, clouds, pans and clouds. The twelve prisons, four divisions and eight bureaus in the palace are all busy. The emperor's guard of honor should be ready to welcome the emperor into the city.
With everything busy outside, Zhu Houcong temporarily returned to the palace.
We set out to enter Daming Gate at noon.
Yuan Zonggao looked at Zhu Houcong from the side and suddenly said softly: "I am not as good as Zhou Xizheng."
Zhu Houcong was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed: "Master Yuan is humbled."
"When I left the palace, Your Highness was less than nine years old. Your Highness is now a saint, so I hope that your merits will be even greater."
"... Master Zhou has indeed taught a lot, but during this period, Mr. Zhou has become more knowledgeable about the situation in the DPRK, and his rhetorical strategies when arguing with Mr. Yang Ge and others are also quite effective."
Zhu Houcong was not very proud.
Because of this, strictly speaking, he had been preparing for more than a year.
Although he knew the general strategy, Zhu Houcong's biggest reliance was actually the fact that Yang Tinghe and the Queen Mother gave in in the end. So many people were killed in the great ceremony discussion, but the world did not become chaotic because of this incident.
In this case, he thought of using this opportunity of meeting for the first time to establish some rules.
After all, Lao Qin said that Yang Ting and the others really had a hard time in the early years of Jiajing. Jiajing was too suspicious and not confident enough, so they continued to fight for power through great ritual discussions. Yang Ting and the others wanted to fight against Jiajing while also implementing new policies to make Jiajing's early years more difficult. It looks a bit like ZTE.
Zhu Houcong really felt that there was no need to dwell on this matter.
The subsequent operations of dedicating the king to the ancestral temple and making Zhu Di the ancestor would really make Zhu Di's coffin board very excited.
Comparatively speaking, Yang Ting and the others are more stimulated now, but in the future, they will become more and more "kind", which will have another benefit.
Does this count as pua against Yang Ting and them?
Yuan Zonggao didn't know what Zhu Houcong was thinking about, but looked at him with some admiration: "What Xi Zheng said more in the letter is that His Highness is smart and diligent. Today, His Highness was very enlightened in front of the cabinet ministers. It's a pity that Xi Zheng is old and can't come to Beijing to hear it together." I saw that I and Xizheng did not dare to speak out about their merits, but it was His Majesty who showed no hesitation in the face of people like Mr. Yang Ge. His words were sharp and well-reasoned."
Zhu Houcong thought to himself that I have the heart of an adult after all. He smiled and shook his head: "It makes me look even more lonely. Being at the forefront for the sake of the emperor is also a sign of not knowing how to use the emperor's power, right?"
"With today's debate, who dares to despise Your Majesty so much? The king's power is used according to the time, and hidden according to the time." Yuan Zonggao knelt down with emotion: "Your Majesty today is not only subdued, but also the victory of justice. Your Majesty's destiny is fulfilled. It is truly a blessing to the Ming Dynasty. I will work with all my heart and soul to help Your Majesty clarify the world and revive the Ming Dynasty."
"Yuan... Qing, Pingshen." Zhu Houcong accepted the flattery and loyalty of his childhood teacher, and after helping him up, he stopped smiling, "Since I have been ordered, I will live up to your teacher's teachings. I am willing to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty as my mission.
It is your duty, and I hope you will give me more encouragement every day."
At this moment, the real monarch and his ministers looked at each other.
Sixty-eight-year-old Yuan Zonggao is also very old. He has lived in Jiangxi for many years and looks older than Zhou Zhao.
His eyes were a little red, and he was also pleased: "I don't know how long I can assist His Majesty, but from what I have seen in these few days, His Majesty is kind to others, behaves well, has far-reaching ambitions, and has a big heart. Today, it seems that Liang Shuhou has returned to his heart, and Jiang
Jingzhi is ready to make a move. After he ascends the throne, he will be rewarded based on his merits, the major case of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, the years of disputes between Yang Jiefu and Wang Dehua, and the selection of new officials in the imperial examination. I think your majesty has already thought about it."
"Take your time." Zhu Houcong said with a smile, "Yuan Qing will serve in Jiangxi. If there are talents, I can recommend them. Due to the limited background of the royal family officials, I am afraid that there will be no successor. Then Xie Changjie..."
An angry look appeared on Yuan Zonggao's face: "As the chief historian of the palace, he actually did such an unfaithful, unworthy, corrupt and perverting of the law! This person cannot be used!"
"Of course it cannot be used." Zhu Houcong sighed softly, "When the disputes arise again, let's kill the chicken to scare the monkey. Since I have become the emperor, there is no distinction between old ministers in the court and old ministers in the residence. Only the talents should be selected and used."
"Your Majesty, Holy Ming!"
Zhu Houcong smiled and saw Zhang Zuo walking into the hall, kneeling down and saying, "Your Majesty, noon has arrived. Please move your majesty."
Yuan Zonggao stood up again, saluted, and went out first to join the hundred officials.
Zhu Houcong was surrounded by only the people in the inner palace, including Gu Dayong, Zhang Jin, Wei Lin, Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin.
He walked forward and said, "Gu Dayong."
"The slave is here!"
"You also heard what I said today." Zhu Houcong said lightly, "What new insights do you have now about what you said before?"
Gu Da lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "It's your fault. Your Majesty is talented and decisive. It should be your Majesty's, so of course it belongs to your Majesty."
"After all, serving the emperor brother for so many years has been a bit hard work." Zhu Houcong glanced at him, "Now that Qian Ning and Jiang Bin are in prison, and there is still the Chenhao Rebellion, people who have taken credit are still being traced. The public situation is fierce, and you can't hide.
In the past. After you return to the palace, you two can discuss it and I will deal with it simply to avoid you having a miserable life in the future."
"... This servant would like to thank Your Majesty for your great kindness."
Gu Dayong knelt behind him, thinking about what his godson relayed when he came to deliver the oral message last night.
Wei Bin and the others made a mistake in their calculation. His Majesty did not really want to break up with the courtiers and replace them with a new group of people.
In this matter, Yang Ting and the others walked down the steps without much power to fight back on the spot.
A few remnants of the Eight Tigers are trying to be villains in vain, and they still want to fish in troubled waters.
After today, will the DPRK and China continue to fight over the issue of His Majesty's succession, so that they can have both sides in the struggle between the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, and the courtiers?
It’s over!
Your Majesty has cut the knot with a sharp sword, and the situation has been decided.
Fortunately, His Majesty finally agreed to give them a night to receive some of the things they had in their hands for the sake of what he had risked his life to see him.
Since it is a night scene, it is not a prison or execution ground after all.
He knelt behind him. Zhu Houcong had already walked out of the palace, and strange faces knelt down on one knee. This was a military courtesy.
The butt determines the head, and the times determine the approach.
Zhu Houcong could neither fully apply the thinking and concepts of later generations to many current matters, nor was he qualified to look down on anyone from a moral standpoint.
Gu Dayong, Wei Bin, and Zhang Yong are indeed not clean, but they have their role.
Zhu Houcong knew that this first victory was nothing, because he had lifted the roof, which made Yang Ting and others extremely worried about what he would do after he succeeded to the throne, so he retreated and agreed to allow him to open a window.
If Zhu Houcong hadn't retracted his overall assessment of "conservative" and told them that "everyone is heading in the same direction", how could Yang Ting and the others have stopped so easily?
What follows is a lifetime of eternal battles, quarrels related to personnel arrangements, control of financial power, and major political policies.
But now, the thing that Yang Ting and they were most afraid of, Zhu Houcong had to give them some hope.
That is to clean up those ministers and lucky ministers in the Zhengde Dynasty who were arrogant and arrogant and acted arrogantly.
Otherwise, Yang Ting and the others would continue to cause trouble. After all, that was the real problem involved: the emperor really didn't trust them.
At the moment, Yang Ting and the others are not stopping him for the time being. That's just because they don't want to be traitors in this matter and don't have the guts to covet greater power.
To put it bluntly, a loyal minister was pointed at a gun by a powerful monarch.
But you can't really point your gun at them all the time. There are many eunuchs sharpening their knives standing next to them.
So we had to clear out Gu Dayong and the others, after all, this was what we had to do.
Fortunately, they already had this awareness, and their original expectations were already pitifully low. Zhu Houcong was able to take over the power in their hands and seemed to be merciful to them.
Zhu Houcong had just finished the first battle with a strategy, and he no longer had a strategy for everything that followed.
But he is going to ascend the throne after all, and imperial power will be his weapon, the most powerful weapon.
Terrible imperial power.
"Let's drive!"
In the long and loud voice, Da Jia Lu Bu slowly started to move.
He is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and now he takes office in the capital!