Jingming

Chapter 29 Year Number, Jiajing (please collect and ask for tickets)
After entering the Meridian Gate, a sense of solemnity and solemnity that is very different from that in the city came to the face.

This is not the Forbidden City full of tourists in the future. Now it is the center of the empire and the most heavily guarded place.

There are no trees in the open and wide field of view. This is not only for the consideration of fire prevention and reducing the blind spot of the guard's vision in safety, but also for Feng Shui and other reasons.

Zhu Houcong's first feeling is: both old and new.

Looking through the Inner Jinshui Bridge and looking at the Fengtian Gate ahead, the guardrail on the stone bridge has only been eroded by wind and rain for a hundred years, so the texture is more delicate and newer than Zhu Houcong's impression.

According to what Zhu Houcong has learned so far, in the future, except for the Great Court Meeting and some celebrations with more intense interests, he will deal with foreign ministers in this area on a daily basis.

The early dynasty is at Fengtianmen, and if there are noon and evening dynasties, they are at Zuoshunmen and Youshunmen respectively.The cabinet meeting summoned by the cabinet ministers is usually at the east corner gate of Fengtian gate.

But when he saw the Wenhua Palace through the Zuoshun Gate, and saw that this group of palaces looked a bit old, Zhu Houcong's first feeling was that it needed to be repaired.

On the north side of Wenhua Hall is Wenyuan Pavilion. From Tianshun to Chenghua, this place can be called the East Palace.Yang Ting and the others first formulated the Notes on Rituals, which also allowed Zhu Houcong to temporarily live in the Wenhua Palace after entering the palace.

But now that Zhu Houcong came here, he was just reviewing the enthronement edict, in which the year name would also be determined.

"The scripture feast is held here?"

After Zhu Houcong walked into the main hall of Wenhua Palace, he looked at it and asked.

Yang Tinghe's heart moved: "Exactly. In the first year of Zhengtong, Duke Yang Wenzhen said in "Please Open the Sutra Feast" that since ancient times, there has never been a sage and sage who can rule without learning. Taizong Emperor Taizong made it, the second and twelfth , 22, three sutra banquets per month, supplemented by daily lectures, after your majesty ascends the throne, you should hold the system of daily sutra feast lectures, and the subjects of the world will be very fortunate."

The persuasion is over, and now everyone has to call Zhu Houcong His Majesty, and Zhu Houcong can also call me publicly.

Zhu Houcong smiled, his cousin didn't like to learn these things.

As for myself, I wouldn't be brainwashed by them with the Four Books and Five Classics.

Although he has a mental age of nearly 40 years old, on the surface he is only a child of fifteen years old.Besides, isn't that also an opportunity to observe them?

"The Jingyan is about to be held, and I can pass a plan later." Zhu Houcong gave Yang Ting and them, who were hit hard today, their first sweetness.

Yang Tinghe finally had a little more fun, bowed down and called him "Shengming".

The first thing after entering the palace is to care about their studies, isn't it a great thing for them?

Zhu Houcong had to go through this first, and he had to learn, think, record, and analyze the things that he didn't have a strategy for later.

Sitting on the throne in the Wenhua Palace, Wei Bin hurriedly took the preliminarily drafted enthronement edict from Yang Tinghe, and handed it to Zhu Houcong respectfully.

The edict was very long, Zhu Houcong read it carefully, and asked casually, "What is the year name proposed in the edict?"

Yang Tinghe replied: "The names of the years drafted by the Ministry of Rites, all officials think that 'Shao Zhi' is the best. Shao Zhi, inherit, continue. Rulers, stability and peace."

Zhu Houcong is not so proficient in the meaning of these words, but this year name is the only detail that Lao Qin has mentioned.

Shaozhi's year name can naturally be interpreted like Yang Tinghe's, but it also has the meaning of inheriting Hongzhi.This is not only a hint of adoptiveness to Zhu Youtang, but also a hope that he will inherit Xiaozong's style of ruling from the previous dynasty.

Yang Tinghe watched Zhu Houcong's reaction carefully, and saw Zhu Houcong raised his eyes and looked at him meaningfully, then smiled and said, "Let's change to another one."

"...Your Majesty, negotiating the year name cannot be done in a hurry."

Just as he was about to explain, Zhu Houcong lowered his head and said, "Let's call it Jiajing. Jiajing means beauty; Jing means peace. There is a saying in "Shangshu Wuyi": Dare not be wild, Jiajing Yinbang. Wu Ding I want to succeed to the throne from the countryside, and I also want to be as wise and long as Wu Ding, so that Daming will be more beautiful and peaceful."

It was different after doing homework, Yang Tinghe was stunned for a moment.

Don't mention it, this year number is really good.It is catchy and has a good meaning, and the source is indeed in line with the situation of his vassal king's succession.

Several cabinet ministers looked at each other, and Qi Qi felt that the emperor had already made up his mind.

If they hadn't been prepared, they would have gone to hell. They never believed that the emperor would have this insight in a hurry.

It wasn't until they saw Yuan Zonggao who was very stunned that they realized that things were not that simple.

While in shock, the emperor said again: "Four elders, Da Zongbo, although you can't change this edict in a hurry, but since you have written a letter of thanks last night, and you have listened to my intentions while walking in the hall, Those expressions just don’t work.”

"...Please make it clear, Your Majesty."

Zhu Houcong looked at them and said, "The word 'into Fengzong' also has the meaning of succession? It should be changed to 'inherit the Datong and enshrine the ancestral temple. Xiqia, although the spirit is strong, the rationale is not yet fulfilled, the middle way is powerful and treacherous, the trick is to deceive, secretly manipulate political power, and spread fierce power.' This is not appropriate. I inherit the great order according to the emperor's brother's edict. How can I be so contemptuous? Royal brother?"

Inheriting a Qingming and happy imperial career in accordance with the destiny, although there is an ardent ambition to make great efforts to govern, but the enlightenment and governance are not convincing.

The words "the right and evil in the middle way are just deceitful, secretly manipulate political power, and spread fierce power" are even more damaging.

But then followed by the sentence "When I was in the mansion, I knew it was not the emperor's brother's intention." It sounded like Zhu Houcong was justifying Zhu Houzhao, but the above comments seemed to be facts that Zhu Houcong agreed with.

As for the statement in the edict about the maladministration that will be dealt with immediately after assuming the throne, it seems that Zhu Houzhao has not achieved anything during his 16 years in office, and he has only a "motivated" heart.

"...Your Majesty." Yang Tinghe blushed, "If there is no such statement, then many new policies will lose their foundation..."

"Once the enthronement edict is announced to the world, I must be responsible for its content." Zhu Houcong shook his head, "The legal order and authority of my succession do not need to be achieved by contemptuous of the previous dynasty, and you should not generalize, yes Brother Huang avoids talking about his achievements in frontier affairs. If the imperial edict really evaluates Brother Huang’s life like this, the history books will only ridicule us for being narrow-minded.”

Yang Tinghe and the others showed some embarrassment, because the achievements like the Yingzhou Great Victory were made by Emperor Zhengde's own willful actions and those traitors he used heavily.

But His Majesty was unwilling to use his mouth to judge his predecessor in this way, Yang Ting and they had no position to persuade - after all, this was the enthronement edict issued by the new monarch in the tone of No.1.

"What I want is fairness." Zhu Houcong made a decision, "I roughly counted the new policies, and there are 81 of them in total. I said you were conservative before, but I was rash. Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are very serious. Urgent, but not in such a hurry. With so many new policies, I don’t need to do anything else after the edict is announced to the world, and it’s not enough to spend my whole life completing these new policies you have proposed.”

Yang Tinghe became anxious immediately, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, these are all bad policies that should be eradicated without delay. It's like the official army in Beijing, the flag school, military artisans, etc., the number of rations has reached more than 37 , One year needs more than 390 million 400 shi of rice. Now, the grain shipped into Beijing is only about [-] million shi a year. For this item alone, even though all the grain brought into Beijing is used, it is not enough!"

"I understand that some of these are to be abolished." Zhu Houcong gave another sweet date, and then pointed to one of the places and said, "But the palace house that was added during the Zhengde period, why tear it down? Don't keep it for future use For another way, it would take a lot of work and money to tear it down? Another example is the righteous traitor, the imperial court has its own laws, and whoever is guilty will be ordered to be punished later, why bother to name and name in the enthronement edict to express severe punishment?"

"The people of this generation are full of complaints, and His Majesty's punishment is the act of praise from the people..."

Zhu Houcong waved his hand: "This one more, abolished the punishment regulations added after the 13nd day of March in the [-]th year of Hongzhi. The previous regulations are completely correct, but the latter one is not right? There are also cleaning up Tongzhou, Zhangjiawan, and Nanjing. Small matters such as ships are also written in the imperial edict... Ge elders, how much I worry you, I wish I could list all the things I want to do in the enthronement edict in detail?"

After asking this question, Yang Tinghe and the others all looked at him aggrievedly.

What do you say?
Do you know how worried we are when you write Xie Jian like that, you are a new stubborn one?

Don't you see that you are going to revise the enthronement edict again now?

Do you still want to ascend the throne soon? !

　Add a new chapter, I wish everyone good health in 2023, and always smile (remember to vote for the guaranteed monthly ticket tomorrow?)
　　
　
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