The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 137 Enthroned
Feng Ziying came to the two of them, "My lord, what do you need from me?"

Mu Xu pointed to Jia Lian, "After you go back today, find someone to check the background of their servants, and then tell him the result."

"It's okay, it can be done within two days." Feng Ziying nodded in agreement.

Jia Lian quickly expressed his thanks to him. Feng Ziying was about to greet him when he saw a eunuch appearing on the Shenwu Gate. He shouted loudly, "Quiet, Your Majesty is coming soon. Please stand by your shift."

When the people below heard this, they hurriedly lined up on both sides according to the shift.The one at the front is the royal prince, followed by four kings with different surnames from east to west, north and south, and the clan's son-in-law.Mu Xu and the Eight Dukes and Twelve Marquises stood behind, and the civil and military officials were the last ones.

A moment later, the new emperor disciple Zhen boarded the Shenwu Gate, and announced to the world that the new emperor was enthroned.He put the edict of Bingguo in the mouth of a golden phoenix, tied a yellow silk ribbon on the golden phoenix with his own hands, and the chief eunuch Wang An put the golden phoenix down along the palace wall. The golden lacquer plate received the decree, and then Pegasus sent it to the Ministry of Rites. After copying it, it was printed and announced to the world, announcing that Tuzhen had officially become the new emperor of Chu. This is the so-called "golden phoenix issued an edict".

Then Tu Zhen returned to the Daqing Hall surrounded by hundreds of officials, boarded the dragon chair, and accepted the congratulations of all the officials. Afterwards, the congratulatory envoys from the vassal kings and the Siyi kingdoms presented the congratulations one by one. Take it, and give back to each other.

After the congratulations were over, Tuzhen immediately issued the first imperial edict, in which Emperor Jiading was respected as "Da Tian Ming Dao Pure Sincerity Zhong Zheng Sheng Wen Zhi Xiao Da Virtue Respects the Emperor", that is, Chu Xiaozong.

There is also a small episode here. Originally, the Ministry of Rites proposed Chu Zhongzong, because Emperor Jiading had not been emperor for a long time and did not have much merit.But Tu Zhen felt that this posthumous title was too common, and wanted to honor Emperor Jiading as Chu Renzong.In the eyes of Confucianism, the word "benevolence" is the highest praise for an emperor. How could those civil servants want to, they immediately opposed it, and even the descendants of the Confucian family wrote a letter to warn them.The two sides quarreled violently, and finally it was the Supreme Emperor who stepped forward, and each took a step back, changing his posthumous name to Chu Xiaozong.

The second edict is to announce that Yuan Hongchang will be changed on the first day of the new year next year, and that the Jiading reign name will still be used this year, and it is the same as when he succeeded to the throne, mentioning that he will amnesty the world.

The third imperial edict required that the whole country be in mourning for one year, all subjects should wear filial piety, and their hats should be wrapped with white cloth.Three months after the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, officials in the capital still had to wear linen and filial piety. They were not allowed to wear court boots and replaced them with straw sandals.At the end of the imperial decree, it was specifically emphasized that all noble families are not allowed to marry within a year, and are not allowed to feast and have sex.

For the last request, those who know the inside story can't help scolding Jia Zhen for harming others.Because in the past, when there was a national funeral, as long as the disturbance was not too severe, the royal family would just turn a blind eye and close their eyes.Who would have thought that Jia Zhen's stick, who dared to gather crowds to take the lead in making troubles before the late emperor was buried, has caused everyone misery now.Now that something like his happened, everyone is cautious now, for fear that they will end up in the same way.

On the second day after the enthronement ceremony, Mu Xu entered the palace and asked Tu Zhen to resign from his errand, but Tu Zhen was still reluctant at first.It took Mu Xu a lot of talking and talking to him about various advantages and disadvantages before he persuaded him. In the end, Mu Xu retained the position of commander of the Dragon Guard.After unloading the heavy burden on his body, when he walked out of the palace again, he only felt a piece of relief.

After Mu Xu returned to the mansion, he would accompany his father every day to meet the nobles who came to pay a visit.Or practicing kung fu in the mansion, teasing a few girls of his own, talking with his relatives, and living a very comfortable life.

During this period, another new thing happened in Beijing. The Ningrong Second Mansion, no, it should be Hepu County Lord's Mansion and Rongguo Mansion. The two mansions conducted a large-scale investigation of their servants.A lot of respectable servants were sent to the government office of the capital, and this matter caused a lot of trouble in the capital.

It is said that these servants are guarding against themselves and stealing from themselves, even secretly using the banner of the master's family to run amok outside, and some even killed several people.When these things first came out, many big families in Beijing were still secretly laughing, thinking that they were making a fuss out of a molehill and showing their family ugliness.But the news that came next completely made these people unable to sit still.

It's just because there are gossip rumors in the market that the Rongguo Mansion only copied their own servants, and copied no less than one million taels of silver.At first everyone scoffed at the words, but they couldn't hold back when there were too many people talking about it, and they said it well.

So some people who had friendship with the Rongguo Mansion came to visit Jia She and his son with an excuse.Although the two didn't admit it, they didn't deny it either, which confirmed the veracity of the rumor.So in the next few days, today is the Zhen Guo Gong's mansion to inspect his own servants, tomorrow is the Qi Guo Gong's mansion, and the day after that is the Jinxiang Hou's mansion.This wave of investigations of his own servants gradually spread in the capital, making the servants of the various mansions feel anxious every day.

Even Mu Xu's mother was affected, but fortunately, the servants of their family were quite honest, only a few stewards of the farms outside the city were not clean enough and were replaced by Princess Changning.

To be honest, Mu Xu didn't think that his butterfly wings would cause such an accident.In private, he joked to Jia Lian, who came to visit him, that those who made a fortune by taking advantage of the opportunity should give him some benefits.

These incidents were so big that the palace naturally would not ignore them. The Empress Dowager Chen immediately seized this opportunity to replace a batch of eunuchs in the palace, Gong'e, and pulled out the nails that many forces had planted in the palace.Empress Dowager Chen's action was only a trivial matter, but the Supreme Emperor had the greatest impact. It may be that he felt that most of the nobles had made a fortune, so he made a decree, to the effect that he asked those who owed the court money to return some money as appropriate. .

When receiving the decree at the beginning, many people chose to wait and see, but it didn't take long for someone to take the lead in repaying the money. This family is a historian with two lords.Not long after the Shi family repaid the silver owed, Shi Ding was promoted to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, and even Shi Nai was released as a provincial official.

Now that it's all right, many people are beginning to feel uneasy, and then they have to pay back the money owed.Among them, Rongguo Mansion was the one with the biggest hand, which returned [-] taels at a time.It's a pity that these latecomers didn't have that kind of good deeds. Most of them were just rewarded with some palace gadgets, and were rewarded by the emperor's decree.

Reminded by Mu Xu, Qin Keqing also wrote a letter to the queen mother, wanting to return the money owed by Ningguo Mansion.In the end, the queen mother issued a decree, saying that she and the Ningguo Mansion belonged to two separate families, and she did not need to bear the debts of the Ningguo Mansion.Afterwards, Mu Xu learned from Tu Zhen that the Queen Mother was generally satisfied with Qin Keqing's knowledge.

After Mu Xu knew that it was the historian who took the lead in returning the money, he admired the brothers of the historian who didn't write much in the original book, to be honest.Because it can be seen from some words of Shi Xiangyun in the original book that historians are not rich.Even so, the family can still return [-] taels of silver. It can be seen that his family has long been successful, and he would rather have less ostentation at home and plan for the future.

In contrast to this is the Jia family in the original text. Their family is so extravagant that Jia's mother spends a meal, and a commoner family of five may not be able to save for a year.

This time the money was still owed, and Mu Xu privately sent a letter to Jia Lian, wanting his family to take the lead.Jia Lian listened to him, but Jia Amnesty was hesitant, for fear of arousing hostility from other families because he was a leader.That being the case, Mu Xu can only do nothing to help.

After this incident, he found that although Jia She was not as stupid as in the original book, he still couldn't accomplish great things. He wasted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he didn't know if he regretted it now.

This year's New Year's Eve, the Dongping Palace was extremely lively. After all, this was the most crowded time in their family for more than ten years.Among them, Mu Xu's grandmother and younger sister were the happiest, especially the little girl Mu Tong, who was celebrating the New Year in the capital for the first time, and everything she saw felt fresh, and she never had a moment of idle chatter.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Mu Jing and his wife will leave for Liaodong.When parting, the family will inevitably feel sad.In the end, Mu Xu personally sent his parents out of the capital, and they didn't bid farewell until fifty miles outside the city.

(End of this chapter)