prosperous age

Birthday Daqing Jiaen Fuchen and old lecturer.

Chen Yiqin's words made Wei Guangde feel hot immediately.

If I can use this opportunity to be promoted to another level in my current official position, wouldn't that be Shangshu?

Gee
After a moment of joy, Wei Guangde suddenly calmed down.

The current minister of the Ministry of Rites is Gao Yi. Recently, they are coordinating their joint request for the appointment of the crown prince. He is also in charge of the celebration ceremony of His Majesty's birthday this time. Could it be that he has a premonition?
But, no matter how you think about it, it doesn't feel right.

Seeing Wei Guangde calm down, Chen Yiqin was a little surprised.

At such a young age, he had the opportunity to touch the post of Minister, but he did not expect Wei Guangde to calm down so quickly.

"Your Majesty is planning to promote me and Zhengfu to the position of Minister who is not in charge?"

Wei Guangde asked.

"Whether it is Gao Shangshu or Yang Shangshu, the court has no reason to dismiss them."

Chen Yiqin's words were actually tantamount to admitting Wei Guangde's conjecture, but he immediately said with a smile: "Although you are not in charge, you can't be regarded as a real minister, but you can open the door to the cabinet, shouldn't you?" Can I have a drink?"

Wei Guangde nodded, indeed.

The imperial court did not give the official position of Shangshu casually, except that Zhengde and Emperor Jiajing were more casual.

A carpenter, because he built the palace well, he can be sealed as a minister of the Ministry of Industry.

A medical officer, because he saved the emperor's life, can be named Minister of Rites.

Although the canonical system stipulates that there are one minister and two ministers, the actual situation is not the case at all. The ministers and ministers have long been overnumbered, and the cabinet ministers are all with the title of minister in order to improve their rank.

"I'm the Minister of the Ministry of Rites?"

Wei Guangde asked.

When he thought about it, since Chen Yiqin knew about it, Emperor Longqing must have discussed it with him.

"Ministry of Officials."

Unexpectedly, when Chen Yiqin opened his mouth, he said the name of another yamen, "Zhengfu is the Minister of the Ministry of Rites."

Wei Guangde blinked, then nodded as if understanding.

But in fact, he didn't understand Emperor Longqing's thoughts. Instead of being promoted to the Minister in his yamen, he was replaced by another yamen.

"If you are the Minister of Rites, it would be embarrassing to meet Gao Yi, and the same is true for Zhengfu."

Chen Yiqin opened his mouth to explain first, "But the original job remains the same."

This, Wei Guangde actually understands, is to do the work of the servant and enjoy the treatment of the minister.

But thinking that he will soon become a heavenly official, the smile that he put away reappeared on his face.

"Hehe, by the way, why did you ask me to come here?"

Chen Yiqin asked again.

After being asked by him, Wei Guangde remembered the purpose of looking for him, and hurriedly told Chen Yiqin the news he heard yesterday.

"Is there such a thing?"

Obviously, Chen Yiqin didn't know that Li Fang was punished by Emperor Longqing to stay at home.

In the past, their news was delivered by Li Fang from the palace, but now that Li Fang committed a crime, the source of the news was naturally cut off.

And Wei Guangde is not only Li Fang, he also has Chen Ju.

"Chen Ju came to me last night to talk about it. I always feel that after His Majesty ascended the throne, things have changed a lot."

Wei Guangde opened his mouth and said.

"Your Highness has become His Majesty, which has changed a lot, and Li Fang still uses the method of Yu Yu to persuade him."

Chen Yiqin put down his chopsticks, lowered his head and meditated.

"I tried to persuade you before, but you also know Li Fang's temperament. He only said, 'I want to be ashamed of my heart'. How can you tell me what to say."

Wei Guangde said with a sigh.

"Too straight."

For Li Fang, people in Yu Yu's family actually admired him very much. Even Gao Gong, such an arrogant person, treated Li Fang as an equal.

Gao Gong actually had no good looks towards eunuchs, even Feng Bao, who used to be the eunuch who was the chief of ceremonies and held pens, didn't have any words when he was in Yuqi.

"Who will replace Li Fang in the palace now?"

Chen Yiqin asked the main point, Li Fang was an old friend for many years, it was impossible not to help, and with him by the emperor's side, they also felt relieved, knowing that he would take care of the emperor and not let him make mistakes, at least not make big mistakes.

"Li Fang is just staying idle, and has not been dismissed yet."

Wei Guangde said.

"Then there is help."

Chen Yiqin immediately made a judgment, "I will ask His Majesty to see you this afternoon, and try to find out."

"Well, pay attention to your wording in front of His Majesty, after all, we are no longer in the dark."

Wei Guangde just reminded.

This matter cannot be delayed, there are a lot of things in the palace every day, it is impossible to keep the post of admiral empty.

If it is late, I am afraid that other eunuchs in the palace will interfere and divide up Li Fang's errand.

What they didn't know was that Chen Hong, Teng Xiang, Feng Bao, Zhang Jing and others in the palace had actually reached an agreement privately in the morning, and they had already sang together in front of Emperor Longqing at this moment, and they were divided in a temporary way. Li Fang's rights.

For the news and reaction speed involving the palace, the foreign ministers are always inferior to the internal ministers like them, and most of the so-called great eunuchs are taught by the imperial officials in the inner school, and many of them are no less knowledgeable than Jinshi , and even better.

This is also the reason why the emperor often chose eunuchs to suppress the court in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, a few eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian were exceptions.

At the end of the banquet, when the banquet was about to end, Wei Guangde suddenly asked about the appointment of the crown prince, how the cabinet voted for it.

"We discussed this matter in the morning, and it must be a supportive attitude. Gao Zixiang seized the timing very well."

Wei Guangde nodded, it seems that the cabinet is also clear about the fact that Empress Chen is not favored in the palace.

When he got to the door of the private room, Chen Yiqin suddenly stopped and blocked the door.

When Wei Guangde was surprised, he heard Chen Yiqin say in his ears: "Actually, after knowing about Li Fang, what I am most worried about is that Your Majesty intends to abolish the empress."

Wei Guangde couldn't help but open his mouth. He hasn't thought about this matter yet, because his memory doesn't have a deep impression on Emperor Longqing, so he doesn't know whether the emperor did it or not.

However, Empress Chen's situation today is actually similar to that of Li Fang. Because the emperor was unhappy with her persuasion, she was forced to move out of Kunning Palace and move to another palace.

If there was no such thing as Li Fang, Chen Yiqin would not have thought of it, but since the eunuch who had followed the emperor for many years would punish him as he said, the fate of Empress Chen would become unpredictable.

But the empress is always the mother of the country. Whether Emperor Longqing likes it or not, it is the successor chosen by the late emperor. As long as there is no serious mistake, she should not be deposed, otherwise it will easily lead to chaos in the harem.

What's more, no one in Yu Yu's old life can say anything bad about Empress Chen's style.

How many concubines Emperor Longqing wants to accept, the foreign ministers really don't care, but it's just about the empress, the foreign ministers really have a say.

"Brother Yifu, you can rest assured at this time, even if you try your best not to be an official, you must not let His Majesty do this."

Wei Guangde spoke.

Chen Yiqin nodded first, then shook his head, sighed, and then pushed the door out.

Wei Guangde also shook his head, followed him out of the private room, and went back to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

Not long after returning to the Ministry of Rites, Wei Guangde took a large group of officials to the Shuntian Mansion Tribute Court for inspection. Although he hadn't been selected as the chief examiner, Wei Guangde knew that he had a high probability of being selected, so he paid special attention to this matter and did it himself.

You know, half a month after the start of the exam, he can't leave the Gongyuan, and he will live in it from the day the decree is issued until the announcement of the list.

On the second day, Wei Guangde hadn't heard from Chen Yiqin yet, but a bad premonition had already arisen.

It's just that at this time, officials from the Ministry of Rites gathered in the main hall to receive the order.

The Ministry of Rites requested the registration of the crown prince, Emperor Longqing agreed, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to handle it, and choose a date to be heard.

In the afternoon, Chen Yiqin still hadn't contacted Wei Guangde, he was already desperate and knew that Li Fang had nothing to do, otherwise Chen Yiqin would not have dealt with it in this way.

If there is good news, Chen Yiqin will send someone to inform him last night.

Feng Bao
Wei Guangde couldn't help thinking of the name again.

On the third day, the order of the emperor's ministers and former lecturers was issued.

Xu Jieyin’s son is Shangbaosi Sicheng, Li Chunfang is also the prince’s grand teacher, Jianjidian’s bachelor, Shizheng’s first-rank salary, Chen Yiqin’s young master is also the prince’s Taifu, Zhang Juzheng’s Shaobao and the prince’s Taibao, each with a suit of clothes , Minister of the Ministry of Rites and Bachelor of the Imperial Academy Wei Guangde Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Bachelor of the Imperial Academy Yin Shidan was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Rites and is still in charge of the original affairs
With Xu Jie as the head, so the benevolent officials asked to resign, but the superior edicts did not agree.

Because the registration of the East Palace had been decided, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty expressed their congratulations one after another, that is to say, they congratulated the crown prince on the Wenhua Hall, and the official seal placed the prince in the palace.

But just when there was joy, Wei Guangde was called back from the tribute courtyard by Gao Yi.

Entering Gao Yi's value room, after the two greeted each other, Gao Yi went straight to the topic and said: "Shan Loan, today I read the book and set up the prince's Yi note, and found many things wrong."

"Is there such a thing?"

Wei Guangde was skeptical that the Yizhu was copied from the previous registration ceremony, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with it.

"In the 15th year of Jiajing's reign, the East Palace already had yellow tiles. At that time, the first emperor also set up a throne in the Wenhua Palace."

Gao Yi said.

As soon as he reminded him, Wei Guangde also came to his senses immediately.

Unlike the Forbidden City that people in later generations saw, the Manchu Qing Dynasty covered almost the entire imperial palace with yellow tiles to show its dignity, but this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty.

Only the palaces of the emperor, the empress, and the three major halls can use yellow tiles, while other palaces are green tiles, in order to avoid suspicion of overstepping.

The term "green tiles and red walls" comes from this.

When the Forbidden City was completed in the 18th year of Yongle, the Wenhua Hall was located on the east side of Fengtian Hall. Like the Wenhua Hall in Nanjing Da Nei, it was also used for the auxiliary government of the East Palace.

The Wenhua Hall is located on the north side of the Wenhua Gate, facing south. The front and rear halls are connected by corridors.

According to the Five Elements Theory in "Book of Changes", the center of the royal family is earth, and the earth is yellow, so yellow has become the most noble color, and royal buildings often use yellow as the top.

However, not everyone in the royal family can use yellow. For example, if the roof is covered with yellow tiles, it is suspected of trespassing. Therefore, the Wenhua Hall is covered with green glazed tiles.

Among the five elements, green belongs to the east, which is consistent with the position of Wenhua Palace; green also represents growth, which is commensurate with the status of the crown prince.

In the early Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that when the emperor went on tour, the prince supervised the country in the Wenhua Palace; when the emperor was seriously ill, the prince watched the court in the Wenhua Palace.

In addition, the prince used the Wenhua Hall as his place of study and worship from the time he went out of the pavilion to the time he came to the throne.

During the period of "out of the pavilion", the prince studied and had lunch in the Wenhua Hall, and went back to the palace to sleep at night.

Around the age of 14, the prince held a "crown ceremony" in the Wenhua Palace to mark his adulthood.

On important days such as the establishment of the crown prince and the crown prince's birthday, the crown prince also received congratulations from all officials in the Wenhua Hall.

It can be said that the "East Palace" that later generations refer to is actually the Wenhua Palace, not the residence of the prince.

In the 15th year of Jiajing, Huangwa was changed, and the throne was set up because Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong was originally a vassal in a corner of Hubei Province in Pian'an. It happened that his cousin Emperor Zhengde had no children when he died, and his younger brother died young, so he was called to Beijing as emperor.

The process of enthroning went through several twists and turns. After Zhu Houcong entered the Forbidden City, the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lived had a fire in the previous dynasty. The restoration has not been completed, so he can only temporarily live in the Wenhua Palace.

For Emperor Jiajing, the Wenhua Palace seemed to have served as his "Qianlong residence" in Beijing to a certain extent.In the later "Controversy of Great Rites and Disputes", he tried to pursue his biological father and honor him as Huang Kao, in order to prove the rationality of his succession.Is this an important reason why the Wenhua Palace was later restored to yellow tiles?

In any case, since the 15th year of Jiajing, the Wenhua Palace is no longer the prince's palace. It has been restored with yellow tiles to become the emperor's private palace.

The ceremonial notes for the establishment of the crown prince were all centered on the Wenhua Palace, but the current situation of the Wenhua Palace is no longer suitable for the establishment of the crown prince, so Gao Yi felt that it was very difficult and recalled Wei Guangde to discuss this matter.

As for changing the yellow tiles on the Wenhua Hall to green tiles and removing the original throne of Emperor Jiajing, neither Gao Yi nor Wei Guangde dared to make such a proposal.

Speaking out, people from Li Ke and the Metropolitan Procuratorate don't know how to impeach them yet.

If the Canonization Ceremony cannot be held in Wenhua Hall, where should it be?
Changing the place seems to violate the canonical system. The prince sits in the Wenhua Hall, which is stipulated by the canonical system.

Wenhua Palace, Wenhua Palace.
Wei Guangde lowered his head and thought about the structure of the Wenhua Palace, then suddenly raised his head and said: "Gao Shangshu, I remember that the Wenhua Palace has a main hall and an apse, and a side hall with an east corridor facing west.

Since there is a throne in the main hall, it is not suitable to be used as a book hall. Can it be changed to the apse hall or the side hall with the east corridor and west facing side hall? "

"Not in the back hall. It was the sleeping palace of the late emperor after he came to Beijing. I think it should be a side hall."

After thinking about it, Gaoyi made his own decision, "I will play immediately, and we will jointly sign together."

"it is good."

Wei Guangde immediately nodded and said.

Coming out of Gaoyi's housekeeping, Wei Guangde went straight back to his own housekeeping. He planned to wait until Sanya went directly to Chen Yiqin's house to ask what was going on.

Chen Ju didn't come to his house these two days, so he didn't know if there were any changes in the palace.

But just as they were approaching San Ya, an imperial decree suddenly appeared in the Ministry of Rites.

"Bingxu will test the tribute scholars of the world. The examiners will be the young Fu and Prince Taishi, Li Chunfang, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and a scholar of Jianji Temple, and Wei Guangde, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of the Imperial Academy."

After receiving the decree, Wei Guangde was "escorted" by the eunuch passing the decree all the way to the Shuntian Mansion Tribute Court.

When Wei Guangde walked into the gate of the Gongyuan, the wooden door slowly closed behind him. Looking at Li Chunfang, the cabinet assistant in front of him, Wei Guangde hurriedly stepped forward to salute. (end of this chapter)