Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 571 This idea is absolutely perfect

On the morning of the first day of May in the eighth year of Wanli, before dawn, Zhu Yijun hurried to his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Li, to say hello, saying that he had something to report urgently.

Empress Dowager Li put on her clothes and got out of bed inexplicably, and called the emperor into the palace to ask why.

Zhu Yijun looked nervous, and when he saw his mother, he immediately knelt down, kowtowed and replied: "Mother, the son dreamed about the father, and the father has been responsible for the son for nearly ten years, but he failed to see the father's mausoleum in person, which is extremely disfilial. My son and minister are terrified, so I'm here to see my mother."

Empress Dowager Li worshiped Buddhism very sincerely. When she heard Zhu Yijun's words, she couldn't help but be surprised. A little bit of drowsiness suddenly disappeared from fright. what?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "I didn't say anything else, the emperor just blamed my son for being unfilial, and my son woke up from the shock at that time, and came to see the queen immediately..."

Empress Dowager Li couldn't sit still anymore, stood up, paced back and forth a few times in a hurry, and said, "No wonder Ai's family has been a little restless lately... the end of the month is the anniversary of your father's death, he is unhappy. Jun'er How did the imperial court arrange for the anniversary of your father's death this time, and who will be the one to sacrifice?"

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "It should be Gu Anbo."

Gu Anbo is Chen Jingxing, the father of Empress Dowager Rensheng.In terms of the custom of offering sacrifices in the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed very appropriate for him to offer sacrifices to Mu Zong.In the past few years, except for the one time when Chen Jingxing couldn't make the trip because of illness, he went there without exception.

But this time, Mrs. Li waved her hand resolutely and said: "Forget about this matter, the Ai family will send someone to pass the decree to the cabinet later, and explain it to Mr. Guo." Let's go to Ciqing Palace. Emperor, you also come together."

Zhu Yijun secretly rejoiced: My idea is absolutely perfect!Not only can it create an opportunity for Yao'e to meet Hou Gongchen who is traveling with Pragmatic, but he can also pay homage to his father in person, killing two birds with one stone, which is wonderful!

Then I said silently in my heart: Father, it is not the sons and ministers who deceived the mother. This fact is for Yao's own good. Your old man has a spirit in heaven, so you will not blame him, right?
Not long after, Empress Dowager Fengjia and Emperor Luanjia went to Ciqing Palace. About halfway through the journey, Chen Hong, the eunuch with the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies, ran over sweating profusely. Empress, what happened to alarm Yijia?"

Empress Dowager Li glanced at him, saw him running profusely in sweat, and said softly: "The emperor dreamed of the late emperor, and the late emperor blamed him for not offering sacrifices in person. Ai's family is going to discuss with the empress dowager Rensheng. This year, on the anniversary of the death of emperor Mu Zong, the emperor will personally sacrifice Zhaoling."

Chen Hong was surprised and said: "Didn't the emperor pay homage to Zhaoling together with the empress dowagers of the two palaces this year?"

The incident he mentioned was in February of this year. According to the regulations of the second year of Longqing, Zhu Yijun first went to Changling, and after the sacrifice, he paid homage to the empress dowagers of the two palaces. The mausoleums are like Changling Yi, and each of the mausoleums sends an official to offer sacrifices.So in theory, Zhu Yijun did pay homage to Zhaoling, and it was only a little over three months.

But Empress Dowager Li waved her hand and said, "The spring sacrifice ceremony is the spring sacrifice ceremony, and the death anniversary is the death anniversary. Each has its own rituals, how can they be confused?"

Chen Hong thought to himself that this matter had nothing to do with him, since the queen mother let the emperor go, then let's go, even if someone has to suffer, it would be Chen Ju's bad luck, he doesn't need to worry about others with Chen's palm print.So no more words.

When they arrived at Ciqing Palace, Empress Dowager Li talked about it with Empress Dowager Chen, but Empress Dowager Chen didn't care, anyway, the emperor was young, so he made an extra trip.And right now, I answered that it has been quiet for many years, and there is no danger near Tianshou Mountain, so I agreed immediately.

However, Zhu Yijun brought up another matter, saying that although the first emperor only blamed him for being unfilial, he thought that King Lu and his younger sisters could not pay homage to Zhaoling, and hoped that the queen mothers of the two palaces would consider the meaning of filial piety from their younger brothers and sisters , and allow them to go together.

This point made the empress dowagers of the two palaces hesitate, because generally speaking, only the emperor can personally sacrifice the emperor's mausoleum in the Ming Dynasty. Casually ran to pay homage, let alone the princess.

But the empress dowagers of the two palaces were the people who used to sleep with Emperor Mu Zong, and they knew that Emperor Mu Zong was a very affectionate person. Since he blamed the emperor for being unfilial and refused to commemorate his death anniversary in person, how could he know that he would not want to see him in the spirit of heaven? King Lu and how many daughters?

So what the emperor said made the queen mothers of the two palaces hesitate. In the end, it was the empress dowager Chen who asked the emperor to go to the Wenhua Palace to summon Mr. Guo Ge to ask the ceremony. If Mr. Guo Ge thought it was okay to go, the emperor would take his younger brothers and sisters with him ; If Mr. Guo Ge thinks it is inappropriate, then only the emperor can go alone.

Zhu Yijun then took the order to go to the Wenhua Hall, and invited Guo Pu, who had just rushed to the cabinet to be on duty, to the Wenhua Hall to greet him.

Guo Pu originally wanted to say, "You don't talk, you are strange and confused", how could you just go there in person in a dream?
But after thinking about it, the emperor personally paying homage to the death anniversary of the late emperor is also a manifestation of filial piety, which cannot be generalized.The reason why most emperors don't go there in person is because there are a long list of old Zhu family's imperial tombs in Tianshou Mountain, but there are many kinds of sacrifices in Ming Dynasty. If he went there in person, then the emperor would not have to do other things. It might be enough to run around the capital and Tianshou Mountain all year round.

But in the final analysis, there is no problem for the emperor to personally sacrifice to his father.

Guo Pu's entanglement also lies in whether King Lu and the princesses can follow. In Guo Pu's view, it doesn't matter if the princesses follow to pay homage to Mu Zong.

The key is King Lu. Daming's attitude towards vassal kings not only inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of ​​heaven's grace and prosperity, but also inherited Zhu Di's strict monitoring policy, so in the end it became pig raising.Raising pigs is not like raising cattle and sheep, there is no such thing as raising pigs.

Raising cattle and sheep even if they are in captivity, there are times when they are let out to graze, but raising pigs is different. They are locked in the pigsty every day to grow fat, and want to let them out?dream.

So Guo Pu finally said: "The emperor's worries are already known to the veterans, but the country has its own rules and regulations. Since His Royal Highness Lu Wang is underage, it is not suitable for him to leave Beijing at will."

Zhu Yijun's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked: "Those princesses..."

"The old minister is not unreasonable." Guo Pu glanced at the tense emperor, feeling a little puzzled in his heart, but continued according to his own thoughts: "Several princesses should not go, but since the two palaces The Empress Dowager thinks this matter is important, so it's not impossible to accommodate one or two things."

In fact, Guo Pu knew that the empress dowagers of the two palaces and even King Lu felt that there was no problem in the past, let alone the princess?But Guo Pu is Gu Ming's first assistant after all, some things can follow the meaning of the two palaces, but some things absolutely cannot.

In his opinion, not allowing King Lu to go is a matter of principle, and not allowing the princess to go, because the princess is also the daughter of the first emperor, so what is the point of going to pay homage to her father? Unreasonable?

Of course, the key is that the princess cannot threaten the throne.So on this issue, you can give some face to the empress dowagers of the two palaces.

Hearing what he said, Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he was about to speak, Guo Pu continued: "But the sixth princess is only ten years old, and the seventh princess is only nine years old, the old minister thought it would be inconvenient to travel far. "

It doesn't matter, Zhu Yijun didn't want to take care of the kindergarten, if it wasn't for the third princess alone, it would easily cause suspicion from the government and the public, he wished he could just take Zhu Yao'e alone, now that Guo Pu took the sixth and seventh princesses away alone, Zhu Yijun couldn't wish for it.

At that moment the emperor said happily: "Mr. Guo is more considerate, then I will take the third younger sister, the fourth younger sister and the fifth younger sister to commemorate the death anniversary of the late emperor."

(End of this chapter)