Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 717
Winter and twelfth lunar month.

The wintersweet in Fengtian Penglai Palace is in full bloom.

On the small sea, Zhu Yihai seldom took time to relax with his big family on the big ice boat. The boat on the ice was actually a special palace called the Dragon Palace, a five-story dragon boat.

The cabin is as warm as spring, but you can enjoy the scenery on the deck.

King Qin and King Han took a group of older brothers and sisters to play on the ice, ice sledges pulled by dogs, sleds pulled by deer, skateboards, skates, all kinds of things, a group of golden branches and jade leaves had a great time playing.

Zhu Yihai, who was watching, wanted to go down to spin tops and skate.

"I plan to make Hongjia the crown prince."

Zhu Yihai said to Queen Zhang.

When Empress Zhang, who was watching the Ninth Prince playing on the ice, heard this, her expression froze, and she quickly became frightened and helpless, then dazed, and soon became a little angry.

"Xiao Jiuting is innocent and cute, and also very smart. He can walk at ten months, and call his parents at the age of one. Now he can run all over the place, and can even recite a lot of poems. Chang, Hongjia is both the eldest son and the eldest son."

"Furthermore, Hongjia's performance over the past year, I have brought him by my side to watch him. He is calm and steady, without losing his great wisdom, especially the six years of living in the Northland, which have created his tenacious character.

Always be naive regardless of the world, only suffering can make a hero.

Now that the Central Plains have been recovered, Zhongxing Daming still has a long way to go. The prince is the foundation of the country, so I have no reason not to establish Hongjia. "

"Xiao Jiu is very smart, and he may not be worse than Hong Jia in the future, but he is not the eldest son."

Empress Zhang opened and closed her mouth, and it took a long time before she finally spoke, "The eldest prince is not the real eldest son, but Xiao Jiu is."

Zhu Yihai stretched out his hand to hold the Queen's hand, but the angry Queen Zhang avoided it directly. She felt angry, wronged, and even sad. When Zhu Yihai went south to Taizhou, it was like fleeing from a disaster, without even a place to stay.When she married him, she brought countless dowry with her, even the Ziyang Palace where she lived belonged to the Zhang family, and even the clothes and food after marriage belonged to the Zhang family.

At the beginning of the army, the Zhang family not only took tens of thousands of taels of silver, but also borrowed all the guards.

But now, the emperor actually said such heartless words.

Zhu Yihai sighed.

The empress was resolute and refused to back down, "The concubine wants to find Wen Shou to judge, and Song Gong and others to preside over justice."

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!" Zhu Yihai was a little unhappy.

"The Ninth Prince is the eldest son!"

Zhu Yihai looked at this Jiangnan woman who was emotionally agitated, even her face was distorted, and she became very strange. She used to be a lady in the water town, gentle and graceful like water. , but she is a very traditional and virtuous woman.

But today's incident seemed to have touched her bottom line, and she began to fight desperately.

"I don't want trouble."

The queen wept aloud, begged Zhu Yihai, and even wanted to kneel down for him, but Zhu Yihai grabbed her, "Don't do that!"

"Your Majesty, you promise my concubine..."

"This is not a family matter. This is a military and national matter. It is the foundation of the country. Hongjia is very suitable in all aspects. It is impossible for me to change my mind."

"The concubine will never agree!"

"The Ninth Prince is the legitimate son, and he is His Majesty's only legitimate son."

Zhu Yihai was a little annoyed, "If the empress insists on doing this, then I can abolish the empress, and then Xiao Jiu will not be the second son, but the concubine prince."

These words were like a bolt from the blue. Empress Zhang couldn't believe that the emperor was so unfeeling. After several years of husband and wife, it wasn't that they were very close, but she didn't feel that the relationship between husband and wife was bad. Although she was the emperor's remarriage, she was even the third official wife. , But marriage is not like this, and couples are not like this.

It doesn't need to be sweet and affectionate, but she doesn't feel that she has missed anything.

"Sorry, I was so angry just now."

The queen gritted her teeth in despair and said, "Since Your Majesty is so heartless, if you don't make the Ninth Prince the crown prince, please abolish the courtiers and concubines."

Seeing her like this, Zhu Yihai called the court lady loudly and asked her to call Concubine Chen Guifei and Concubine Ruan.

Ruan Lihua also gave birth to a prince for the emperor last year, the No. 18 son. Now the emperor has sixteen sons, and the number of heirs is also prosperous.

"The queen suddenly feels unwell, Concubine Chen Gui and Concubine Ruan, send the queen back to the palace to recuperate."

The originally rare time of family leisure gathering was interrupted because of this, Zhu Yihai left feeling a little depressed, and went directly to the Prime Minister's office.

He summoned the ministers of the Prime Minister's Office and the academicians.

"I plan to make Hongjia, the eldest son of the emperor's line, the crown prince, so as to reserve the throne."

The emperor said that the ministers who came here were a little surprised, but they were not so surprised. The emperor has kept the two princes by his side all this year, but he obviously attaches great importance to the eldest son Hongjia, and the eldest son of the emperor also behaved very well. It's really good, and even the folks are known as the virtuous king.

Several of his state affairs memorials suggested that the emperor even revised them after reading them, and then handed them over to the Dibao for copying, and all major newspapers also published them, obviously to make the King Qin famous.

And those who are more sensitive feel the difference from the title of the emperor's eldest son. In the past, emperors generally only publicly called King Qin as the eldest son of the emperor, and never officially called the eldest son of the emperor.

But today he is directly called the eldest son of the imperial concubine. Anyone who understands the mystery here will naturally understand it.

"I ask the scholars of literature to draw up three decrees for me first, canonize Concubine Chen as Imperial Concubine Chen, canonize Concubine Ruan De as Concubine Ruan, and canonize the Nine Princes as King of Qin."

Zhu Yihai paused for a moment, and asked the draft decree to make Hongjia's biological mother also the queen.

The emperor's attitude couldn't be more obvious.

Wen Anzhi, a senior scholar of the first auxiliary university and chief minister of the prime minister, asked the emperor, "The crown prince is the foundation of the country. Has your majesty considered it?"

"Establishing a son is based on elders and not virtue, and establishing sons is based on honor and not elders. Hongjia is the eldest son, so he should be established, not to mention he is virtuous and stable, and he is worthy of a great responsibility."

Zhu Hongjia was born in a concubine, originally a concubine, but he was the first wife's successor, so he was actually the eldest son, but later Empress Zhang also gave birth to a concubine.

Both of them are Zhu Yihai's own sons, and their respect depends on their mother.

With the emperor's firm attitude, it is true that the eldest son of the emperor is no problem.

As far as Wen Anzhi's own position is concerned, these civil officials of Confucian origin have always supported the patriarchal system and the system of heirs.

In order to establish the Ninth Prince as the heir, first the relationship between Hong Jia and Empress Da Zhang as adoptive must be abolished, and the heir and concubine should be seized.

He also had a lot of contact with the King of Qin, and he really liked the eldest prince. Although he had gone through hardships, he was not knocked down by the hardships, and on the contrary became more tenacious.

The prince is the foundation of the country, and if there is any problem with the registration, there will be endless troubles.

Wen Anzhi fetched a pen and paper, and began to draft an imperial edict.

Now that it's decided, let's make a good morning, and let people feel at ease early.Now the Ninth Prince is still young, and he doesn't understand these things. Now that the name has been determined, naturally there will be no courtiers around the Ninth Prince to support him in the future.

"Promote the third-rank Zhan Shifu to the second-rank yamen, with the cabinet department, Hanlin and Zhan Shi official positions, and the first assistant Wen'an is also the prince Zhan Shi, and the prince and grand teacher."

"The cabinet co-organizes the academician Du Yinxi and the prince Shao Zhan's affairs, and the prince's young teacher."

"Xu Shiqi, the censor of Zuodu, is also the prince Zuo Chunfang, Zuo concubine, and the prince Taifu,
Liu Zongzhou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, concurrently Prince Youchunfang You Shuzi, and Prince Taibao.

Zhu Yihai directly dictated to the crown prince's East Palace officials. The main institutions of the East Palace are Zhan Shifu and Zuochunfang, as well as the Chongwen Museum and the Sijing Bureau. There are also three temples, Jialing Temple, Sugeng Temple and Pu Temple.

There are also three teachers and three young masters for the prince, and four guests for the prince.

And according to the Tang system, there are ten mansions in the East Palace, the prince's left and right mansions, the prince's left and right Si Yu's mansions, the prince's left and right Qing Dao mansions, the left and right supervisors' mansions, and the prince's left and right inner mansions.

There are four inner guards under the left and right inner guards, including Prince Qin, Xun, Yi, and Wu.

The left and right Siyu and the left and right Qingdao each lead a battalion of the learning army, and the rest lead the government without leading the army.

The main duties of the left and right Qing Dao led the mansion were to control the inside and outside of the East Palace and patrol the police day and night, and the left and right prison gates led the mansion to take charge of the access control of the East Palace.

The left and right leaders are in charge of the guards of the East Palace, guarding the prince, and are in charge of weapons and guards of honor.

Zhan Shi and the concubines of the left and right are all important positions in the Eastern Palace. Zhu Yihai is also a minister and leader, and Shao Zhanshi is the actual official in charge of the affairs of the Eastern Palace. This first Zhu Yihai chose Du Yinxi, the co-organizer.

Other official positions such as Zhan Shicheng, Zhan Shizhubu, and Prince Xianma were mostly held by Hanlin officials.

When Zhu Yihai appointed the crown prince, he directly prepared an entire East Palace organization for the crown prince. The main officials were concurrently held by the court ministers, while some lower-ranking real positions such as chief bookkeeper and Xianma were also specially arranged for excellent Hanlin to assist the crown prince.

What's more special is that Zhu Yihai actually gave the prince the right to command the army.

Specially build four guards in the prince's house for him, with 500 people in each guard, and a total of 2000 people.The four leaders of the East Palace each lead a battalion of apprentices, that is, the fourth battalion has 2000 people.

This Xuejun is actually the students of the newly established Donggong Lecture Hall in the East Palace. In fact, it is a non-commissioned officer academy, a military academy for training young and outstanding non-commissioned officers.

Although there were not many soldiers for the East Palace, a total of [-] soldiers, [-] of which were non-commissioned officers who were trained at the school, but these were the real [-] soldiers after all.

The emperor directly gave the [-] troops to the East Palace, which shows that the emperor really wanted to build a small court in the East Palace.

Now Zhan Shi and others are concurrently held by senior scholars and ministers, but Zhu Yihai plans to add more posts in the future, for example, one more person will be added to the left and right bastards in Zuochunfang, and these new posts or deputy posts will be filled by some younger and outstanding officials. , Become an official who actually assists the prince in managing the affairs of the East Palace.

Those ministers who are part-time officials of the East Palace will assist the prince when they are free, and they will also grasp the general direction of the affairs of the East Palace, and even do some audits, etc. The specific daily affairs will be handed over to those officials who are stationed in the East Palace.

Zhu Yihai wanted to make the Eastern Palace a miniature imperial court. If he went out in the future, he had to let the crown prince and the Eastern Palace really take on the heavy responsibility of staying behind and supervising the country, so that they could get in touch with and take charge of some specific affairs first, so as to exercise their ability to govern the country, Ready to take over.

Without experience, how can he inherit the throne.Without experience, even if you can't form your own core team, even if you successfully ascend to the throne, you may be emptied by the ministers.

The most important problem for many emperors in the Ming Dynasty was actually the lack of enough confidantes. In the end, they could only regard the eunuchs around the palace as confidantes to fight against the ministers of the foreign court. Not being able to truly control the government is also the root cause of Ming Dynasty's decline.

The emperor and the cabinet are fighting for power, and the country doesn't even have a real political center, so how can it be strong.

The institutions and officials of the Eastern Palace are not only teaching and assisting the prince, but also training the prince.

Zhu Yihai even plans to designate a prefecture or a county in the surrounding area and hand it over to the East Palace to manage after the capital is moved to Beijing next year, so as to give them some more direct opportunities to experience and practice soldiers.

None of the ministers in the hall objected to the attitude and determination revealed by the emperor.

This is not only the emperor's all-time authority, but also the new crown prince is also supported by everyone. Everyone here is the emperor's confidantes who have been chosen by the emperor, and who will sing against the emperor.

"Get ready to plan the ceremony for the canonization of the crown prince."

"The minister requested to register his order in Linxuan of Fengtian Palace. The emperor came to the scene in person. The ceremony was presided over by the chief assistant Wen Anzhi. The second assistant granted the book and seal on behalf of the emperor. After the ceremony, the prince went to the Queen's Palace to pay homage.

After paying homage to the queen, the prince went to the Taimiao to pay homage under the guards of the officials of the East Palace. This etiquette was presided over by the leader and under the guidance of the three masters and three young masters. "Wang Zhiren proposed.

Zhu Yihai thought about it.

"The prince will first go to Nanjing to pay homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum and the Ancestral Temple, and then on the first day of the next year, he will be appointed in Linxuan of the Fengtian Hall, and then he will go to Beijing to pay a visit to the Ancestral Temple."

The crown prince is the foundation of the country, and Zhu Yihai hopes that it will be grand and formal.

"One more thing, the crown prince is thirteen this year, but he hasn't performed the crown ceremony yet. I respect the Zhou system and the Han and Tang dynasties, and I should promote our Han nationality's Yuanfu ceremony even more. Nine pin crowns."

In the Ming Huidian, the crown prince and the emperor's grandson are crowned on the [-]th or [-]th year. If they are not crowned, they have no pro-government power, and they cannot participate in decision-making if they are underage.

Ordinary people are crowned at twenty, while the children of high-ranking officials can be crowned at fifteen.

After being crowned, it also means that you can get married and have children.

Zhu Changluo, Emperor Guangzong of the Ming Dynasty, was not stable because of his popularity, and he was not crowned until he was 19 years old.

Zhu Yihai asked the ministers to prepare the crowning ceremony for the crown prince now, first crowning and canonizing the crown prince, after crowning, he can formally practice in the small court of the East Palace that was set up for him.

Crowns give birth to sons, etiquette, young men must be crowned when married.

For Zhu Yihai, the 13-year-old Zhu Hongjia can not only canonize the crown prince, observe politics, and even start to consider marrying the crown prince for him.

"Zhuqing, after Hongjia is crowned and canonized, he will be 14 years old after the year, and he will also be married. If you have any suitable girls, please recommend them to me."

The crown princess is also the future queen, and even the mother of the future emperor's grandson. Zhu Yihai still hopes to find a good daughter-in-law with good character and virtuous conduct.

For the requirements of the future crown princess, he is not limited to the family of civil servants or military officials. Of course, it is best to be the daughter of an official of the fifth rank or above, with a certain family background. Germany.

You must be at least 1.6 meters tall and above, and you must have never bound your feet, no matter how much or how little.

There are no restrictions on southerners and northerners, but the best age is thirteen or fifteen or sixteen, and even if they are older, they should not exceed three years old.

The future daughter-in-law Zhu Yihai will have to see it in person, and let the prince see it by himself. She must be more careful and not sloppy.

(End of this chapter)