Jingming

Chapter 30 Issues with the Enthronement Edict (seeking a guaranteed monthly ticket)
Zhu Houcong looked at them deeply, and now he was more and more inclined to think that the cabinet was playing time lag with him, the emperor, rather than that he couldn't change it.

I am afraid that a lot of new policies have been added in the period just now, which is why the following 81 new policies appear to be in disarray.One will talk about eunuchs, another will talk about people's livelihood, and then jump back to eunuchs.

With such a long enthronement edict and such chaos, how many problems can Zhu Houcong see in a short period of time?I'm afraid that's what they thought.

Before Zhu Houcong saw the enthronement edict, he also thought that the enthronement edict was just a ceremonial text.

But after he read it carefully, he discovered that the enthronement edict actually stipulated the "government strategy" of the dynasty.

Be very specific, very specific!
This kind of general policy was handed over to him in such a haste, how could Zhu Houcong accept Yang Ting and their methods all at once?
The two sides froze here again. Zhu Houcong had just given them a sweet treat of "wanting a sutra feast", and now there was a dispute over the enthronement edict.

The previous statements are easy to say, but with so many specific national policy guidelines, Yang Ting and the others do not want to back down, and Zhu Houcong cannot fully agree with them.

Generally speaking, these principles and policies are to "put order out of chaos", which can be said to be "de-virtuous".

Some of the policies implemented by the cousin Zhu Houzhao in the past 16 years have basically been abolished, but you cannot say that Yang Ting and the others really want to reform.

They are going retro.

Returning to the state during the Hongzhi period, at the same time, the monarchy was restricted by restricting Jinyiwei, restricting eunuchs, abolishing Huangzhuang Huangdian, and advocating persuasion.

There was silence in the Wenhua Palace. Zhu Houcong put down the imperial edict and said, "It is even more absurd to order all the yamen in Beijing to discuss and implement the reformation edict on their own. During the Zhengde period, there was no good government decree? You let me take such an edict to tell the emperor a few feasts and be ordered to ascend the throne?"

Yang Tinghe and others knelt down, but did not argue.

Zhu Houcong only felt that somewhere in the palace, his cousin's coffin board must be very excited at the moment.

The bones of the great general of the town are still cold!

There is nothing worse than this, Yang Ting and them are really ruthless.

Now Zhu Houcong understands them a bit. How strong is this Zhengde PTSD symptom?

And he, Zhu Houcong, was also very strong before, no wonder Yang Ting and them burst into tears.

"Don't worry, really don't worry." Zhu Houcong sighed, "Now it's the other way around, and I advise you to take it easy. It is said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. You guys are on fire. Today I hereby promise you that what should be changed must be changed. First, let’s sort out these 81 principles, how to summarize them into several major aspects of bad governance, what direction to change, and what effect will be achieved. Just write these things down. Time is running out. , have a meeting and a meeting."

Yang Ting and them have a deep grievance, and you also know that time is running out, so just change the year name and those few words?
In the Wenhua Palace, the first imperial cabinet meeting was held before the emperor ascended the throne.

The theme of the meeting: the approval of the emperor's enthronement edict and the governance strategy of the Jiajing Dynasty.

The emperor, the host of the meeting, made full complaints about the confusion of the arrangement of many new policies in the imperial edict. On this basis, he summarized many new policies into several categories, namely: granting grace and amnesty, appealing for injustice and rewarding meritorious deeds, abusing redundant staff, restricting eunuch power, clarifying the administration of officials, and reforming Economy, adjustment of justice.

Among them, in terms of eunuchs, official administration, economy, and judiciary, etc., it only specifies the direction of reform and what effect it will try to achieve, but does not specify specific measures for the time being.

In fact, these aspects themselves are only restricting the eunuchs. They wrote clearly and slashed with a knife.In other aspects, most of the same old tunes are repeated, such as clearing the land and reducing taxes and duties. It is written, but it is not as clear and specific as restricting eunuchs.

The emperor himself finally concluded: "In this way, it will be much more organized. In the past ten years, there have been more and more places where the inner courtiers have pointed fingers, and I also know it. But the inner courtiers and the outer courtiers are the two hands of the emperor. You can't let me It’s really a disability. I will recognize the effect of changing both sides, black and white.”

The elders in the congregation could only accept this kind of peace with a bitter face.

It can't be said that there is no gain, and some of the bad government indeed accepted their opinions happily.

But this is another half game lost, His Majesty is indeed not letting go of the right to speak step by step.

He set the year name, and he also intervened in the New Deal.

What is disturbing is that the reign title he set is indeed good and of a high level; and his opinions on the New Deal are actually well-spoken.

Now everyone has seen it with their own eyes: he is not talking nonsense!

Although no one was around to teach him, and it was purely about the new policy in the imperial edict, he actually had some opinions, and the words he used to refute their opinions were quite reasonable.

So when he left Wenhua Palace, the four cabinet ministers looked at his back with complicated emotions.

Liang Chu was the first to sigh: "The lively days are still to come."

Everyone has a common and clear understanding: he cannot be treated as an ignorant child.

That's weird.

Who taught it?
Yuan Zonggao was only sent here, facing Yang Ting and their eyes, Yuan Zonggao looked innocent.

I just taught him to read, really.

Just these few days on the road, what is enough to teach?This old man admires His Majesty's opinions!

No one knows how much a middle-aged man who knows that he will be an emperor in the future has thought about the future in his life of filial piety without mobile phones, computers and entertainment.

He may not understand many things of this era, but the struggle for power is ultimately a worldly affair mixed with interests and ideal beliefs.

Zhu Houcong is far more mature than they imagined, and far more diligent and pragmatic than they imagined.

Never underestimate the cautious and courageous heart of a middle-aged man with a second youth!
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Of the three main halls of the Outer Dynasty, the southernmost one is the Fengtian Hall later named the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and further north is the smaller square canopy hall.

According to the revised note on entering the palace ceremony, Zhu Houcong went directly to Huagai Hall to change clothes, and was going to worship and accept orders before Zhu Houzhao's few banquets.

When they got here, the foreign minister no longer followed him.

The closest to Zhu Houcong were Zhang Zuo, Huang Jin, Mai Fu, and Zhang Zuo, the four eunuchs who had come with him from the Xingxian Palace. The four helped Zhu Houcong put on a solemn filial dress, and they came under Wei Bin's guidance. go.

In the Forbidden City at this moment, preparations for the enthronement ceremony are everywhere.

Huagai Hall is the back stage, Chengtian Gate is the place where the ceremony is announced, Fengtian Hall is the main stage, Fengxian Hall, Jiyan Hall, the palace where the Empress Dowager lives...

The first thing Zhu Houcong has to do now is to park the Jiyan Hall of Zhu Houzhao Zi Palace.

In the Forbidden City, there is no place called Jiyan Hall.The so-called few feasts are a more high-end name for the mourning hall.

After the emperor died, it usually took a long time from his death to his actual burial, and there were many etiquettes in between.

First, the coffin will be held in the Qianqing Palace, and then the small and large coffins will be placed in the Zigong Palace. After a while, they will be moved to a certain place to arrange several feasts, waiting for the funeral and burial.

You can't stop at Qianqing Palace all the time, can you?Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, is he still in the same hall as the coffin?
The banquet halls of emperors and empresses are generally set up in the Hall of Renzhi known as the White Tiger Hall, which is a secluded building located in the west of the Forbidden City and north of the Hall of Martial Arts, which is symmetrical to the Hall of Wenhua.

Zhu Houcong came all the way here, and before entering the Jiyan Hall, he heard heart-piercing cries inside.

The eunuch leading the way in front shouted loudly at the door: "His Majesty the Emperor greets the Daxing Emperor personally!"

As a result, the cries in the Jiyan Hall became louder. As soon as Zhu Houcong entered the hall, he saw a noble lady in mourning clothes knelt in the direction of the Zi Palace to salute in front of her.

Zhu Houcong understood that this was Zhu Houzhao's queen Xia.

When the others came over, Empress Xia naturally didn't need to be here.But Zhu Houcong's identity is different. He is the heir, but not the son.He came to tell Zhu Houzhao several feasts and was ordered to ascend the throne. This is a very important etiquette process.Not only can he see Zhu Houzhao's real wife, but he can also receive a gift of condolence.

Zhu Houcong looked at the huge Zi Palace in front of him, which now contained Zhu Houzhao who "gifted" the throne to him.

A person's death is like a lamp being extinguished. No matter how grand the emperor's lamp is after his death, how does the Ministry of Rites comment on him in the new emperor's enthronement edict?
Zhu Houcong felt a little emotional, and sincerely bowed five times and kowtowed three times.

Zhu Houcong no longer cared whether the absurdity of this cousin in the legends of later generations was true or not.

He should have helped Zhu Houzhao rewrite the evaluation he encountered in the enthronement edict.

The new history of the Ming Dynasty will be written by him!

　The new year begins, and the plot also enters a new chapter!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)