Daming 1805

Chapter 177 The peace talks delegation returns to Beijing

On November 34th, the [-]th year of Taiping of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was Shuntian Mansion.

The Ming Dynasty peace talks delegation arrived in the capital.

"They have achieved victories that they have not won on the battlefield, and their return this time is a triumphant return."

According to the instructions of the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, the Ministry of Rites organized a welcome ceremony of the highest level, just like a ceremony to welcome the troops who returned from victory.

After the delegation disembarked in Tianjin, they took a special train and entered the capital.

But instead of taking the train directly into the old city as when we left, we got off at Xincheng South Station.

All the delegates rested for two days at the station in the south of the new town.

Then take the convertible car prepared by the Ministry of Rites and line up through the main road of the entire new city.

This is actually the key stage of the whole etiquette.

The people of Xincheng lined up on both sides of the street to welcome them.

The achievements of the delegation have long been disseminated among the people through various newspapers.

These achievements they have made, and their impact on the present life, have also been carefully analyzed and disseminated.

Endless orders, higher and higher wages, more room for immigrants to break through, and Huangzhuang began to recruit immigrants again,
are directly related to this negotiation.

Those industries that were opened up before the peace talks are even more vast land obtained by the negotiations, and the vast market is directly ripened and fed.

The value of the first batch of people who ate crabs has doubled.

The latecomers who only remember to enter the market now have already started to make money.

There is no one who is not grateful, and no one is not welcome. There is no need to find someone to greet you during the whole ceremony, and there is no need to enhance the atmosphere.

On both sides of the road, in the windows of the street, and on the roof, there are crowds of onlookers and cheers everywhere.

The atmosphere in the entire new city was extremely warm.

The members of the clan, the officials of the court, and the returning representatives themselves were also very excited.

At the very beginning of the peace talks, everyone thought that this might be the first time that Ming hadn't won a peace treaty, and might even have to cede land.

So much so that everyone dared to mention the peace talks, but no one was willing to host the peace talks.

As a result, Zhu Jingyuan, the young grandson of the emperor, was allowed to speak and act as the plenipotentiary representative of the peace talks.

Originally thought that the emperor's grandson was going to take the blame, so that the old emperor made an exception and directly named a prince, and everyone had no opinion.

So much so that Zhu Jingyuan asked Daming to cooperate with the negotiation to make reforms, and all officials and clans also accepted it.

As a result, in the end, the young emperor's grandson negotiated a big victory.

All reform projects have also become extremely smooth because of the smooth negotiation.

Now the entire Ming Dynasty is in a state of burning oil.

A new era is beginning.

The convoy of the peace talks delegation passed through the entire Jingshi New City and entered the old city from Yongding Gate amidst cheers from both sides of the road.

Then turned directly into the Temple of Heaven.

The official ceremony is carried out directly at the Temple of Heaven, which is actually a special ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven.

Because the emperor and the Ministry of Rites believed that the contribution of the delegation should be told to heaven.

The specific merits of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor in this peace talk have already been told to the heavens when Taishan was enshrined in Zen.

Now it is dedicated to the delegation.

But everyone is very excited, I can sacrifice to the sky for my contribution this time, and tell the sky to know.

When the tedious ceremony was over, the old emperor returned to the Forbidden City with all the civil and military officials and entered Fengtian Hall.

The old emperor sat in the upper position, and the officials sat on both sides.

The old emperor ordered the cabinet scholars to come out to announce the decree.

Members of the delegation who had just returned from overseas thought they were being rewarded.

As a result, the old emperor announced the imperial edict of Zen.

Zhu Jianyan, the second son of the emperor, was ordered to take the throne immediately, and Zhu Zhongliang himself was promoted to the title of Supreme Emperor according to the usual practice.

The courtiers who just came back were a little shocked, but the cultural relics officials who stayed in the capital had already expected it.

Ever since Zhu Jianyan replaced Zhu Jianfeng as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, everyone knew that the old emperor was going to change his heir.

Then the old emperor directly managed fewer and fewer things, which shows that after this replacement, he will completely delegate power and hand over power.

Especially after returning from the Fengchan Grand Ceremony, the old emperor completely ignored his affairs.

At the same time, the end of the year is coming soon, and the time when the peace talks delegation returns is a more appropriate time to announce their abdication.

In this way, preparations are made in the last month of the new year, the new emperor's enthronement ceremony will be held on the first day of the new year, and the official change will be officially changed on the first day of the new year.

This is a custom formed in the era of Emperor Sejo.

Zhu Jianyan first went to the apse to change the emperor's robe, and after coming out, he saluted the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang and succeeded to the throne in front of the old emperor.

Then the new emperor Zhu Jianyan accepted the pilgrimage of civil and military officials, and Zhu Zhongliang left the scene briskly and returned to the harem.

Zhu Jianyan led all the officials, bowed and respectfully sent Zhu Zhongliang out of the hall, and officially took Zhu Zhongliang's original seat.

Today's simple ceremony is not a formal enthronement ceremony.

Now it is just a direct transfer of the emperor's power. Under the supervision and instruction of the previous emperor, the new emperor began to act as the emperor.

After the enthronement ceremony on the first day is completed, the era of the new emperor will officially begin.

Zhu Jianyan sat at the place where he had looked up countless times, condescendingly looking down at the officials on the left and right sides, feeling agitated and apprehensive.

My family knows about my family affairs, most of my throne is earned by my precious son...

After Zhu Jianyan settled his position, he began to reward the returning delegation.

The first is Zhu Jianfeng, the representative of the clan. Although he is not present at the moment, theoretically he has the highest status.

Zhu Jianfeng is already a prince, so of course there is no way to improve his title.

Zhu Jianyan could only give him land ownership and the right to distribute dividends in Huangzhuang according to the practice after the Renwu Dynasty.

After Emperor Shizu rebuilt Daming, he formulated stricter land control and recycling mechanisms.

Emperor Shizu stipulated that all land in the world belonged to Emperor Ming.

Half of the farmland obtained from land reclamation belongs to the land reclamation pioneers, and the other half belongs to Huangzhuang controlled by the emperor.

When all wasteland, rewards, ancestral land and farmland are to be sold, Huangzhuang has the priority to repurchase them.

That is to say, all the new farmlands that have been reclaimed, and all large and small land transactions must go through the formalities here in Huangzhuang.

Anyone who violates Huangzhuang's right of first refusal and trades land privately will be confiscated immediately upon discovery.

The current land annexation in Daming is very thorough, but most of it has been annexed to the emperor.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty is the largest landowner in Ming Dynasty, holding nearly half of the developed land in Daming, and owns all the undeveloped land at the same time.

The land rewarded by the emperor to the clan, the land can be used to build holiday estates, or leased out to make money, or sold.

But the object of sale can only be the emperor or the royal consortium.

The right to distribute dividends in Huangzhuang is to designate one or several Huangzhuangs, and within a maximum of 30 years in the future, the maximum dividends will not exceed [-]%.

The basis of this dividend ratio is not the dividend amount of all the income of Huangzhuang, but the dividend amount of the part that should have been distributed to the emperor.

The emperor took out at most [-]% of the dividends he earned, and distributed them to the designated clan with credit.

Zhu Jianyan was just east of Tongzhou in the eastern part of the capital, and he allocated [-] square kilometers from the land of Huangzhuang as a reward for Zhu Jianfeng.

In addition, 15% of the royal family's dividends will be distributed to Xiyang Cape Huangzhuang in the next [-] years.

As for Zhu Jingyuan, the true leader of the peace talks, Zhu Jianyan didn't directly reward him, and skipped it for the time being.

It wasn't that Zhu Jianyan was reluctant to give rewards to his son, but that he wanted to directly discuss with his son and ask this kid what he wanted.

Then, from the status of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, he was directly promoted to full-time Minister of Honglu Temple, and at the same time he was awarded the title of Earl.

Other senior officials were also promoted one level, and many middle and low-level officials were directly promoted two levels.

And this promotion is just the beginning.

After Zhu Jianyan's enthronement ceremony, there will be a batch of large-scale promotions.

At that time, it will not only be rewards for the peace negotiation delegation, but also a large number of middle and high-level officials will have the opportunity to be promoted.

It is customary for the courtiers of the old emperor's contemporaries to retire together with the old emperor, unless both generations of emperors specifically retain them.

If the brothers of the new emperor hold positions in the imperial court, they will directly withdraw all existing actual positions and transfer them to the clan court.

In this way, a large number of positions of real power will be vacated in the court, and the new emperor can directly arrange people who were once optimistic.

At the same time, the team members who served in the local area can be called into the capital and assigned to the required positions.

The entire court will be changed quickly, so that the new emperor can quickly grasp the real power.

The reward for the peace talks is over, and today's dynasty is also over.

The princes and ministers all left the palace beaming.

A few ministers stayed here to directly report some special news and send some special letters to the emperor.

Shen Fu took three letters from Zhu Jingyuan and presented them to his former boss and current monarch, Zhu Jianyan:
"Your Majesty, this is a letter from His Royal Highness Prince Dashi to the Supreme Emperor, His Majesty and Madam He."

Zhu Jianyan was obviously surprised.

Obviously there is a telegram that can be used, but this kid also specially writes letters...

Let the guards check it and pick it up, let Shen Fu go back to rest, and go to the apse to find his father.

The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, who had become the Supreme Emperor, was also very surprised when he heard that Zhu Jingyuan had written a letter to him.

He took his own letter and read the beginning, then turned to read his son's letter.

Zhu Jianyan was also reading his letter, not knowing what his father was thinking, so he subconsciously asked:

"Father... what's wrong?"

Zhu Zhongliang said in surprise:
"This kid didn't use the same opening greeting for you and me..."

Zhu Jianyan didn't understand what was going on with his father's way of thinking, and felt that both their grandparents and grandson's way of thinking were different from ordinary people.

Zhu Jianyan didn't know how to answer, so Zhu Zhongliang asked and answered by himself:

"It must have been written by the book."

Zhu Jianyan subconsciously said:

"This is Yasushi's own handwriting..."

Zhu Zhongliang said of course:

"That is to let the book be written, and he copied it again himself."

Zhu Jianyan was speechless:
"Father Emperor... this greeting is not the point, the point is what he mentioned.

"Should he be allowed to build a navy or even... the air force in the Great Food Kingdom?"

Zhu Zhongliang waved his hand directly, and continued to read the letter while saying:

"Now that you are the emperor, you decide for yourself, don't ask me everything, I will start health preservation now..."

Zhu Jianyan was even more speechless:
"Then father, you should rest first, and my son will go back to the palace first, and bring back Jingyuan's mother's letter..."

This time the old emperor did not go astray, nodded his head lightly and said:

"I'm going to live in the palace outside the city for a few days, and I won't come back if I don't have any major matters. You can also prepare to move into the palace."

Zhu Jianyan bowed and agreed:

"My son obeys."

(End of this chapter)