Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

In the first year of Chongzhen, the first month of spring, Guihai, Shuo.

Zhu Youjian received congratulations from court officials, pilgrim officials, and tribute envoys from all directions in the Huangji Hall, and read out the inscription.

The great plan for the world's officials, decided years ago, was announced again by Zhu Youjian. It was regarded as the first priority in the first year of Chongzhen, and all officials were reminded to pay attention.

After the Zhengdan Dynasty congratulatory ceremony, according to the Ming Dynasty system, the court had a five-day holiday——

This is the reason why Zhu Youjian wants to cancel the Zhengdan greetings. It is too close to the Winter Solstice greetings and the Longevity Festival greetings. Not only will it not have much effect, it will also affect the New Year's rest.

It is better to let the ministers celebrate the festival at home and work hard after the new year.

However, the significance of the first day of the first lunar month prevented him from tampering with anything, so he could only continue to hold the congratulatory ceremony of hundreds of officials on this day, and then continue his holiday.

This Zhengdan day of greetings is not much different from the past.

The biggest change should be that Lin Dan Khan, who was named King Shunli, officially sent an envoy to congratulate him.

Kong Zhenyun, as the imperial envoy to the grassland, finally returned to the capital and presented the enfeoffment map.

This incident made Zhu Youjian extremely happy, and regarded it as one of the two major achievements he made after ascending to the throne:

In Zhu Youjian's opinion, there was no distinction between superior and inferior officials in the grassland. Even the former is more important and has a more far-reaching impact.

In his heart, he had already planned how to completely bring the grassland under his rule, end the thousands of years of disputes between the Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland, and complete the unification of the entire China.

This unification is not superficial, nor does it end with the acceptance of tribute. We must fully realize unification in politics, economy, ideology and culture.

Allowing Kong Zhenyun to send disciples of the Confucius family to build Confucian temples on the grasslands was one of the measures in this regard.

In the future, he will also specifically set aside quotas for imperial examinations for those outside the customs and overseas, and encourage them to participate in the imperial examinations.

We need to let people outside China and overseas learn from it and see the benefits.

This is a long-term plan, and the most recent move is that Zhu Youjian ordered the restoration of the Yuan Shizu sacrifices that were dismissed by Emperor Jiajing when he was revising the ritual ceremony. In the emperor's temple, sacrifices were continued to the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty, as well as the five ministers of worship, Muhuali, Bohu, Boershu, Chi Laowen and Boyan.

After seeing this, the messenger on the grassland felt more at home.

After the congratulations, they not only presented tributes according to the rules, but also brought gifts——

Beauty on the prairie.

Last year, when Zhu Youjian recruited Lin Danhan, he promised to marry his daughter, and the Ming royal family and the Golden Family were married.

Lin Dan Khan’s daughter is still young and not suitable yet. Zhu Youjian originally thought that this matter would be delayed and the impact would not be big at that time. He could easily suppress it after serving as emperor for several years.

Unexpectedly, Lin Danhan couldn't wait to be his father-in-law, so he chose a beauty from a branch of the Jin family and adopted her as his adopted daughter to Zhu Youjian.

In this way, he, the Mongol Khan who was named King Shunli, became the father-in-law of the Ming Emperor, and he would not suffer any disadvantage in terms of title.

Now that everyone has been sent, for the sake of the relationship between the two parties, Zhu Youjian cannot return it and can only accept it first.

Many old masters in the court finally found the reason and wrote letters one after another to advise.

It's not that they think there's anything wrong with the emperor having concubines, they just think that the Ming Emperor shouldn't be close to Yi Di women when he only has a queen.

Others think that the emperor has no heirs and should choose more people.

In short, these people like to get involved in the emperor's family affairs and make various suggestions in the name of doing good for the emperor.

Regarding these, Zhu Youjian did not care or ignore them. He could only pretend not to see them and was on vacation. As for the beauty who caused this incident, he did not rush to bring her into the palace, but arranged for her to live in Qinghua Garden in the name of teaching etiquette.

This garden is the property of the Li family of Wuqing Marquis and is known as "the most famous garden in the capital". The Li family has been in business for decades before reaching its current scale.

After the Li family was seized by Zhu Youjian and sent to develop overseas, the mansions and houses they purchased over the years were directly transferred to the inner government in the name of the family temple by Zhu Youjian.

Naturally, Tsinghua Garden was among them and became a royal property.

Zhu Youjian has been famous for this garden for a long time. If he hadn't felt that the capital was still unsafe and there wasn't much to see in winter, he would have taken the queen with him to visit——

He was not used to being bored in the palace all the time.

Now, this garden, which he regards as a royal garden, plays a role in arranging the concubines who have not entered the palace.

In the garden, he also arranged to renovate a Nine Lotus Bodhisattva Temple to correspond to the family temple.

Some members of the Li family who were not suitable for migration were also arranged by him to stay in the family temple.

The rest of them have left the capital and are temporarily staying in Tianjin due to the decree to leave the capital years ago.

The name Tianjin was set by Emperor Chengzu, which means the ferry where the emperor passed by. It is a strategic military location in the southeast of the capital.

Emperor Chengzu established Tianjin Guards, Tianjin Left Guards, and Tianjin Right Guards here, collectively known as the Tianjin Three Guards.

Later, grain and goods transported to the capital through the Grand Canal had to pass through Tianjin. Tianjin gradually transformed from a military town into a commercial center.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi, the imperial court established a military preparation road in Tianjin. After the Japanese invaded Korea during the Wanli period, the imperial court set up the governor of Tianjin to take charge of sending troops to rescue Korea.

After the Liaodong War, Tianjin's status as a logistics base became even more important. Today's governor of Tianjin is mainly responsible for paying taxes for Liaodong.

After Zhu Youjian ascended to power, he valued Tianjin even more. First, a naval office was set up in Tianjin, and then a customs house was set up in Tianjin, which was designated as one of the ten ports capable of foreign trade. All exchanges between the capital and overseas must pass through here.

Because of this, news of the establishment of Tianjin Customs spread, and some astute businessmen have already gone to Tianjin.

This time they were not seizing important commercial sites near the canal, but looking for opportunities for overseas trade.

The Li family discovered this matter after arriving in Tianjin. After finding out that they could take a boat from Tianjin to go south to Fujian, they began to plan to send some people to take the sea route to make a front stop first.

This way, the rest of the Li family will have a place to stay when they arrive in Quanzhou. Don't be confused and confused when the time comes.

With this idea in mind, they found Yu Zigao, the admiral of the navy, and asked him to help transport people.

Even though the Li family was driven out of the capital, once they arrived, no one looked down upon them——

No one knows whether the emperor still remembers this relative or whether he will attack them in the future.

Before it was determined that the Li family was completely defeated, local officials like Yu Zigao did not dare to underestimate them.

After hearing that the Li family went south to Quanzhou to go to Dongning to spread the faith of Nine Lotus Bodhisattvas, Yu Zigao paid more attention to them——

Obviously, as long as the Li family handles this matter well, they will regain the emperor's trust. It is not impossible to restore the title of Marquis Wu Qing.

Therefore, Yu Zigao quickly prepared a boat and sent the Li family's front-line people over.

At the same time, several ships heading north from Fujian finally arrived in Tianjin, and under the orders of the Ming Emperor, they went to the capital for pilgrimage. (End of chapter)