Jingming

Chapter 32 Fengtian carries the emperor
Wei Bin replied with a guilty conscience: "There has never been a custom in the palace, but it is a common practice for the empress dowager and the empress dowager to live in the second palace of Renshou and Qingning..."

Zhu Houcong understood, his face turned slightly cold.

Is Empress Dowager Zhang playing this little trick to embarrass Jiajing?
The East and West Six Palaces are the residence of the emperor's harem. What does it mean to place Concubine Shao there?
Zhu Houzhao passed away, and her queen was quickly arranged to go to Qingning Palace, another empress dowager's residence.

The empress Dowager Shao, whose seniority is higher than the Empress Dowager Zhang, moved to Weiyang Palace from Yinghua Palace, where the conditions were worse, and called it her former residence, but here are the rules!

Weiyang Palace is located on Neixi Road, at the northeast corner of Renshou Palace.

Zhu Houcong went around and came back here again.

In the tense mood of Wei Bin and others, Zhu Houcong didn't say anything at first.

When I arrived at the gate of Weiyang Palace, I saw a maid supporting an old lady with her hands open towards the gate. She looked around blankly, with tears in her eyes: "Has the emperor arrived? Where is the emperor?"

"Grandmother, grandson is here." Zhu Houcong hurried over.

Concubine Shao burst into tears, touched his face with trembling hands, and touched the top of his head to measure his size: "That's great, it's really great..."

The old man's pure affection made Zhu Houcong's heart soft and sore, and he held her hand and walked slowly into the main hall: "Grandmother, grandson is back now. Soon, mother concubine and your two granddaughters will also come , when the time comes, you will all live together, and you can enjoy your family relationship to the fullest."

Concubine Shao just kept shedding tears of joy: "That's great, that's great..."

She still looked at Zhu Houcong in front of her, but there was no focus in her eyes.

Concubine Shao gave birth to three sons, but these three sons have all passed away after becoming adults, and there is only one grandson in this generation, Zhu Houcong and a boy.

In the days when it was heard that her sons were passing away one by one, and her grandsons were also dying prematurely one by one, the former noble concubine and later a marginalized person in the Forbidden City, Shao Taifei, went blind from crying.

But her only remaining grandson is now about to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

This kind of wonderful fate, as well as the old concubine's true feelings, made the other eunuchs and maids in Weiyang Palace sigh with emotion, or they cried for other reasons.

Zhu Houcong stayed in Weiyang Palace for a while longer before leaving under the urging of Concubine Shao.

"Go, today is your big day, come see grandma when you are free. Now it's all over, grandma doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, and I can see my grandson."

Concubine Shao obviously couldn't see, but now she finally smiled happily.

Zhu Houcong left Weiyang Palace, feeling uneasy.

He said that he doesn't have to worry about food, clothing and clothing now, but I'm afraid there was a time when he was worried before.

The situation of Weiyang Palace seems to be much better than that of Qingning Palace, but that's probably because Zhu Houzhao's concubine lived there before and has been maintained by someone.

In addition to the court ladies and eunuchs brought by Zhu Houcong from Anlu, Empress Dowager Zhang also sent some people over.

If he hadn't been in charge of this palace city, it would be impossible for Concubine Shao to receive such treatment.

Although the current treatment is very strange, it reveals a careful thought of calculation and temptation.

Only when I met three people in the harem, walked between the walls of the palace, and met the people who really lived here at this moment, did their lives come alive in front of my eyes.

Who lived in Weiyang Palace two months ago, and where has it been driven away now?

"Zhang Zuo, when you turn around, go to Weiyang Palace to serve first." Zhu Houcong opened his mouth.

"The slave obeys the order." Zhang Zuo didn't mean to be dissatisfied at all, although he would stay away from those important positions in the palace because of this.

It is said to go to Weiyang Palace, but the essence is to serve the emperor's real relatives.

He understood that the princess... no, the queen mother will definitely come to the palace soon.How could the concubine and the queen mother live in Weiyang Palace all the time?
Zhu Houcong looked at the entrance of Renshou Palace not far away, and asked about the names of each palace and pavilion in detail while walking towards Fengtian Palace.

After this question, he raised his head and looked at the Fengtian Hall in front of the Huagai Hall not far away. It was obviously much larger than the Hall of Supreme Harmony in his memory.

It turns out that the Forbidden City at this time is quite different from the Forbidden City that later generations visited.

There is no Compassionate Palace at all, there are no two side halls on either side of the Qianqing Palace, and there is no trace of the famous Hall of Mental Cultivation.

There is also a large Qin'an Hall in the imperial garden, where Emperor Zhenwu is worshipped.

Since entering the city, he has been running around non-stop during this time.

As soon as he arrived at Fengtian Hall, Zhu Houcong was still staring at the huge pillar, which was nearly [-] meters wide and needed three or four people to embrace in the hall. Zhang Zuo, who was waiting there, greeted him: "Your Majesty, the elders in the pavilion have revised the enthronement edict and sent it to you." gone."

Zhu Houcong took the edict, opened it, walked to the throne and read it carefully.

The throne is surrounded by six golden lacquered dragon pillars. The orb in the mouth of the golden dragon in the central caisson on the top of the hall is facing the throne. The golden lacquer carved dragon throne is surrounded by cranes, furnace tripods and carved dragon screens.

After reading it once, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "As expected of the scholars with profound knowledge."

In a hurry, it is difficult for them to quickly revise the version.Not only must Zhu Houcong's wishes be satisfied, but also the seriousness of the enthronement edict must be taken into account.

Wei Bin knelt under the throne and said sincerely: "My servant bows down to thank His Majesty for your mercy."

Zhu Houcong glanced at him indifferently: "I didn't do it all for you. Besides, I didn't let them delete what should be changed. You should think about how to make up for the mistakes. Foreign officials are not so easy to dismiss."

"Your Majesty is wise, this servant understands..." Wei Bin stood up and sighed inwardly.

Even Yang Ting and the others retreated steadily, Wei Bin and the others no longer dared to expect much, just save their lives.

Today, His Majesty's power is overwhelming in the hall. Not only has Empress Dowager Zhang learned about his methods, Wei Bin and the others also know that there is no room for the three of them to do their best.

Empress Dowager Zhang is not his opponent, so how can there be old people like them in the palace?As for the confrontation with foreign ministers, the new king must still use new people.

"Use India, let's get started."

Zhu Houcong sat on the throne, looking at the honor guards and officials standing inside and outside the hall.

Honglu Temple, please issue an enthronement edict.

The head of the Hanlin Academy held the edict and handed it over to the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The Commander of Jin Yiwei received the edict at the Meridian Gate and placed it grandly in Yunyu.

The enthronement edict slowly arrived at Chengtianmen, and was handed over to the ritual officer in charge of reading the edict.

The time-telling drum sounded again, and the specially selected ceremonial officer with a loud voice recited aloud.

"Dengjiyi, kneel!"

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: I inherit the fate of the emperor, and I rely on Hongxiu, the sage..."

"...it regards next year as the first year of Jiajing, amnesty the world, and reform with the people..."

All the officials kneeling outside the Chengtian Gate were quietly listening to the clauses that were read out one after another.

Anyone who understands it, this time the enthronement edict seems to be different!
When Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, among the 43 new policies in the imperial edict, 13 were pardons and forgiveness, 23 clarified that the rich and powerful disturbed the people and saved money, and 7 recommended talents and opened the way of speech.

This time the imperial edict has several categories, several small decrees, and many strange words, and it does not clearly explain which regulations will be implemented.

It seems that the scope of the New Deal is unprecedented, but it is not very clear. This is clearly a sign that it has not yet been agreed.

How could the elders draw up such an edict?Or does the emperor have other ideas?
No matter what they thought, the enthronement ceremony went on stage by stage with precision.

After the ceremony, the No.11 emperor of Ming Dynasty finally officially ascended the throne.

(End of this chapter)