Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1730 Post-war waves ([-]) Marquis of Nanning!
The thunderous cheers lasted for a long time, until the civil servants were tired of shouting, Xu Xuemo, Minister of Rites, quietly signaled to Taichang Siqing with his eyes, and soon after, all the bells blared, signaling the official start of the Jiaoying.

Gao Yushi is not Zhou Yu, and he does not have the ability to "make mistakes, Zhou Lang Gu", but the music he played today is very familiar to him, and it surprised him - it is "The Song of Taihe" by one of the Zhonghe Shao music. "!
Because the Ming Dynasty was based on expelling the Mandarin slaves and restoring China, it attached great importance to the restoration of traditional Chinese etiquette.Etiquette was often referred to as "ritual and music" in ancient China. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang also attached great importance to the construction and use of ritual and music. Cao studied, determined the sacrificial ceremony, ordered to revise the book of rites, and re-determined Yayue.During his 32-year reign, he must be sincere and respectful whenever he encounters sacrifices, fasting, and animal sacrifices.

In order to warn himself, he specially ordered Taichang Temple to make a signboard, and wrote the time of the sacrifices of Yuanqiu, Fangze, Sheji, Ancestral Temple, Xiannong, Fengyu Leishi, Mazu, etc. on the signboard, and hung it in front of the east ear room. remind.He also ordered the Ministry of Rites to cast a bronze man with a short book in his hand saying "Fast for three days", and put it in front of him before offering sacrifices, so that he would be vigilant and dare not let it go.He also ordered each yamen to set up Muzhai boards, engraved with "Each has a permanent constitution, and the gods have supervision." to remind all officials during sacrifices.

In order to show his respect for the gods, he specially set up the gods to be optimistic, and sacrificed to Yayue with the Taoist palm of "cleanness". , everyone has fun, and those who make music must choose their people carefully, and those who learn Lao Tzu's method are the most available, so they choose their students carefully, and they are optimistic and dedicated to their work." It is precisely because of the emphasis on sacrifices, Compared with the previous dynasties, the functions of the Taichang music officials in the Ming Dynasty became more single-minded, only in charge of various sacrificial ceremonies and music, which is "highly specialized" in modern language.

Of course, there is no need to go into details of the extremely complicated music official system of the Ming dynasty, but only the music used for sacrificial ceremonies and grand ceremonies (any ceremony requires sacrifices, so the music used for sacrificial rituals is basically the music used for ceremonies).

The sacrifices in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three categories: big sacrifices, middle sacrifices, and minor sacrifices: the major sacrifices included Yuanqiu, Fangze, Ancestral Temple, and Sheji, etc.; , Haidu, mountains and rivers, emperors of all dynasties, ancestors, flag flags, Siming, Simin, Silu, birthday stars, etc.; the gods are small sacrifices.

Corresponding to the level of sacrificial offerings, sacrificial music is divided into four grades: Nine Zou, used to worship heaven and earth; eight Zou, used to worship gods and Tai Sui; Emperor Society, Emperor Ji, Ancestral Temple, Xianshi.

There are mainly two kinds of sacrificial music: Zhonghe Shaoyue and Confucian Temple Dayue.Zhonghe Shaoyue is widely used in important sacrificial ceremonies of the imperial court, and the scale is very large.The sacrificial movements of the Ming Dynasty all have the word "harmony", such as "The Song of Neutral Harmony" and "The Song of Guanghe".Different levels of sacrificial ceremonies are accompanied by different music.

The above-mentioned nine performances, eight performances, and seven performances are roughly equivalent to the several performances required to complete the ceremony, and each performance is equivalent to a stage of the ceremony.The more grand and high-level the ceremony, the more music will be played.

The nine performances are roughly divided into the following nine steps: welcoming the gods, laying jade and silk, entering the zu, first offering, second offering, final offering, dedicating food, sending off the gods, and looking forward to burning.The level of the sacrifice can be roughly judged from the repertoire of the first performance at each step of the music - this is of course not very accurate, because among a large number of sacrifices of various grades, the first performance of "Song of Neutralization" is particularly frequent.

However, it is very rare to play "The Song of Taihe" for the first time, and it is usually for offering sacrifices to the Taimiao.This is also the reason why Gao Yushi is very familiar with this piece of music at the moment, and this sacrificial performance is composed of eight pieces, which can be said to be of a very high level.

Some people may ask, the purpose of the triumphant return is to sacrifice the captives to the Taimiao, so isn't it appropriate to use the music sacrificed to the Taimiao at this moment?That's not the case, offering captives to the Taimiao and offering sacrifices to the Taimiao are two different things, and in the Ming Dynasty, where the etiquette system is extremely strict, they cannot be confused at all.Because in a sense, if the two are considered together, there will be a sense of madness in future generations who think they can match their ancestors. Who dares to mess around?
However, the first song played by the Taichang Temple at this moment is "The Music of Taihe", the first performance of offering sacrifices to the Taimiao. It can be seen that today's ceremonies are either imitating the level of offering sacrifices to the Taimiao, or directly creating a new level.

At this time, Gao Yushi couldn't move around at will. Instead, his expression straightened immediately after the music started, and he got off his horse and walked out of the crowd. Follow closely when going forward, stand south and look north.

After the ceremonial official sang, Gao Wushi and Qi Jiguang immediately knelt down—not only the two of them, but in fact everyone in the field knelt down, all kneeling facing north, including the emperor and the Mongols. Inside.

Gao Yushi, who bent over and kowtowed, glanced at the master of ceremonies quietly, and found that the ceremonial officer had solemnly held out a gold plate with various treasure books on it, and a row of nine people stood solemnly waiting for the next move.At this time, Gao Yushi can finally be sure that the etiquette used today is to sacrifice to the Taimiao!
The second step of offering sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple is not laying jade and silk, but "receiving treasures". Now that the treasure book has been brought out, it can be seen that there is no mistake.If you really want to be more on the safe side, let's see what music is played next.

At this time, Gao Wushi also followed the ceremonial official's singing and recited the congratulatory speech. This congratulatory speech is very long, and it takes a long time to read every sentence, so I won't go into details here.After the words of congratulations were read out line by line, the ceremony officially entered the next step, and the ceremony officer who presented the treasure book directly presented the treasure book to the north—but the problem was that this place was not the Taimiao, and Gao Wushi was also very curious about what they would do.

It turned out to be something new. All the ceremonial officials presented treasure books to a row of incense tables that had been set up in the direction of the Taimiao.Although Gao Yushi is far away, it is estimated that there are spirit tablets of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty on the incense case.This...maybe Zhu Yijun invited his ancestors out for a military parade. This might be the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

At this time, the music has also been changed, and the music played is "Song of Xihe", which perfectly fits the music used for offering sacrifices to the Taimiao.

The follow-up procedure is still extremely complicated, and there is no need to elaborate on it. In short, the next six performances are as follows: Jinzu, "Song of Ninghe"; Chuxian, "Song of Shouhe", "Dance of Martial Arts"; The Song of Yuhe, The Dance of Wende; Final Xian, The Song of Xihe, The Dance of Wende; Chedou, The Song of Yonghe; Sending God, The Song of Peace.

After this long process, everyone was kneeling numb, like Xu Guo, who was nearly [-] years old, knelt tremblingly, swaying here and there, but no one dared to stop halfway. Didn't even dare to be helped - and no one dared to help.

Zhu Yijun himself didn't seem to be feeling well either. He has always suffered from "foot disease", and many priests were sent to perform sacrifices on behalf of dignitaries and cabinet ministers. This time, it's no surprise that he knelt profusely and sweated profusely.The only preferential treatment he can enjoy is that after the ceremony is over, the eunuchs who are in charge of rituals will quickly get up and help him up.

There is a section in the prayer just now that the official of ceremonies read the imperial decree on behalf of the emperor, and the imperial decree wrote the reasons and reasons for this sacrifice.There is also something different here, that is, offering sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple as a grand ceremony for the younger emperors to sacrifice to the ancestor emperors. In the imperial decree, the younger generation usually reports their achievements to the ancestors. Even if the officials are mentioned, they are just mentioned without naming them.

However, this time was different. Gao Wushi found that his name appeared three times in an open and aboveboard manner, and said three points respectively: knowledge, martial arts, and martial arts.

There is nothing to say about knowledge, and it is pointed out that he is the only champion of the six poems since 220 in the Ming Dynasty; Wen Zhi focused on his "following the behest of Wen Zhenggong" to manage financial shortcomings, which made the imperial court's annual revenue reach the highest in the founding of the country last year; Martial arts is the most important thing in today's grand ceremony, and he has enumerated in detail all his great achievements since he became an official.

Not only the battle of Monan, the battle of southern Liaoning, the pacification of the Northwest, and the Northern Expedition to the Remnant Yuan are the merits of the four battles here, but even the first battle of Ping-Myanmar was counted by him. Thousands of miles, the gold, pearls and jades will not decrease but will increase.” This kind of dispatching work... Uh, the second half of the sentence is probably not just dispatching, but plundering other countries.Of course, in name it was the indemnity he demanded from the failed invaders, well...in name it was fine.

Knowledge, martial arts, and martial arts are all outstanding, and all are superb.From this point of view, high pragmatism is hard to find in history, which shows how high the emperor thinks of him.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli, also "inflated" a little here, quoting a sentence from "Qunshu Zhiyao·Wei Zhixia": "If there is a king who is not worldly, he must be able to use ministers who are not worldly. An unworldly minister will surely be able to make unworldly achievements." To summarize these achievements.

Fortunately, if this is his own bragging, it would be too crazy, but he used it very cleverly here, because he added a sentence before it: "The former emperor has taught..." and added a sentence after it: " ...Although it is not enough today, I can comfort you.” In this way, the madness disappeared, but it seemed that he attached great importance to the teachings of the late emperor, and always took the late emperor’s expectations as his own responsibility, and now he has finally achieved some achievements, so he can come to comfort the emperor ——This is another excellent embodiment of filial piety.

It has to be said that Zhu Yijun's operation, even Gao Yushi, can only give a thumbs up and say it was well done-as expected of his classmate of ten years, his thick skin and clever use have really integrated into one, worthy of It is said to be perfect.

After the process was completed, Gao Yushi stood up, holding the Tiger Talisman, Guan Fang and other items in his hand, and went to the emperor to return them.The emperor has recovered from kneeling to numbness at this moment, and he has messed up the previously set etiquette with a spring breeze-originally according to the procedure set by the Ministry of Rites, he should return the high-ranking officials on the stage to the off-stage at a certain point. A keepsake symbolizing military power, and then the emperor praised him, and then the supervisor of ceremonies proclaimed the imperial decree on his behalf.

But Zhu Yijun had promised well before, but at this moment he didn't follow through. Instead, after Gao Yushi came over, he walked off the stage with a smile on his face, helped Gao Yushi up with his own hands on the spot, and took off his cloak. Take it down and put it on Gao Yushi's back.

When Gao Yushi was helped up earlier, Gao Yushi hesitated for a moment, but got up anyway.But when the cloak was put on him, he was so frightened that he quickly kowtowed down again, flustered—at least it seemed flustered—to express that the minister dared not bear it.

Not only that, but he even said his resignation in a rather incoherent way, which was really the first time Zhu Yijun saw him behave like this since the first time he knew him.

But Zhu Yijun was very happy, and forcibly lifted him up again, and sang a poem with a smile, saying: "Yuehei geese fly high, and Shan Yuye flees. If you want to drive Qingqi away, the bow and sword will be covered with heavy snow."

Then I tightened the cloak tied to Gao Yushi tightly, and said with a smile: "I asked the imperial prison to make this cloak for you overnight, so you can wear it with peace of mind. Hey, if you refuse again, then I can only do it." Saying 'This is a gift from the king, you cannot refuse'."

Gao Wushi was stunned for a while, he didn't look at the style of the cloak just now, he didn't know if it was made by the emperor, but at the moment he couldn't take it off and take a closer look, and since the emperor has already talked about this, he refuses Obviously, it became resistance and disobedience, which is also not acceptable, so I was stunned for a while, so I had to bow down again and thank the Lord Long En.

Gao Yushi bowed three times, Zhu Yijun helped him three times, then he flicked his robe sleeves and walked back to the general platform, ordering: "Chen Ju, declare the decree!"

This imperial decree is extremely long, so it is inconvenient to describe it in detail, so I only choose one or two: "The Minister of the Ministry of Households is highly pragmatic... the instrument is brilliant, and he can plan and make decisions. From the point of view of the strategy, he entered the Zanji court. He is in charge of the ministry. The wealth handle, clearing the remaining debts and accumulating tens of thousands of gold; while leading the heavy army while self-governing, the special merits are even more obvious to the Ming Dynasty.

He has a heart of worrying about the country and a tool to help the world. He conquered the northern and southern wars to make the barbarians worship, and the border gangsters rest in peace, and the whole number of lives is more than millions.All of these works are for regional paintings, and they are presided over by Zhuo. When their success or failure is not clear, they do it alone regardless of reputation or wealth.

He became an official in the first year of the year, and the country was purged for ten years. The barbarians were subdued, and the millet in Taicang could be supported for several years. The money accumulated in Jiong Temple reached more than six million.Chengjun's morality is restrained, his luck is rigorously tested, his name is comprehensive, his postal biography, land mu, and economics are also talents.To be open and honest, to be virtuous, to catch sycophants, to hold on to one's feet, and to guard against generosity, why should an ancient virtuous minister be so good?It is advisable to add a code of rewards to persuade the ministers who are in charge..."

Because his martial arts have been announced before, these few paragraphs can be said to focus on commending his martial arts, but in any case, they are all foreshadowing, and they are all for the last sentence "It is appropriate to add a code of rewards to persuade the people who do things. minister."

At this time, the whole audience was silent, no matter the civil servants or military generals, no matter the Ming army and Mongolian army, they were all listening, wondering what kind of reward the emperor would give Gao Yushi in the end.

"...I have ordered the court of the nine ministers, big and small, to discuss high-level and practical qualifications for entering the cabinet. Wouldn't it be great for a great talent to follow the power of the court and think that it will be more outstanding? I also think about the meaning of the ancestors' titles and reward loyalty. Therefore, this canonization: Gao Yushi was granted the title of Marquis of Nanning, hereditary. In addition, most of the feudal titles in the imperial court are military honors, but Gao Yushi is not included in this list. His title is like the story of the Duke of South Korea. This is it."
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