Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 67 Canonizing the Queen
On September 27, after Zhu Youjian was discharged, Princess Zhou was officially canonized as queen.

Zhu Youjian had a busy day, holding a canonization ceremony for the queen and arranging her residence.

Kunning Palace is now the residence of Queen Zhang, and it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to rush her out as soon as she is discharged. So Zhu Youjian asked Queen Zhou to live with him in the Qianqing Palace, and at the same time planned to renovate the Yangxin Palace as another residence for himself.

The name of Yangxin Hall comes from the saying in "Mencius" that "no one should be good at cultivating the heart by abstaining from desires". Emperor Jiajing often made elixirs in the Wuliang Hall south of the Yangxin Hall, so he sometimes lived in the Yangxin Hall.

After Zhu Youjian saw this courtyard, he quickly understood why the later Qing emperor liked to live in Yangxin Hall. Compared with the tall, spacious and solemn Qianqing Palace, the independent courtyard of Yangxin Palace is more convenient to adjust the layout, and is obviously more suitable as a residence.

Thinking of the cinnabar red all over the palace, it is likely that it was absorbed into his body after falling off. Zhu Youjian plans to completely renovate the palace when he gets rich, remove cinnabar and other toxic substances, and replace them with safer materials. It’s just that he doesn’t have the money now, so he can only renovate the Heart Cultivation Palace.

According to his statistics on the age of the Ming emperors, only three emperors in the Ming Dynasty lived more than 71 years old, Taizu was 65 years old, Chengzu was 61 years old, and Shizong was years old.

Needless to say, Taizu and Chengzu did not grow up in the palace, and they often fought abroad, so they did not live in the palace for a long time.

Emperor Sejong Jiajing was the successor of the vassal king and grew up in Huguang when he was young. After becoming emperor, he lived in Xiyuan for many years and did not spend a long time in the Forbidden City.

Except for Emperor Shenzong Wanli, most of the other emperors died in their thirties or forties, and Emperor Tianqi only lived to be 23 years old——

There may be something really wrong with the architecture of the Forbidden City and it is not suitable for raising people!

Zhu Youjian has a deep understanding of the vastness and majesty of the Forbidden City these days. Such a place is very suitable for the emperor's status, but if you live there all the time, you will feel trapped in a small world.

In addition, the Qianqing Palace was spacious and empty, which made Zhu Youjian very unpopular. So he planned to renovate the Yangxin Hall on the west side of Qianqing Palace, plant some flowers and plants, and decorate it as a courtyard——

Everything was done according to his preferences, and several thermal pavilions were set up as another residence.

Once you have complete control over the palace and don't have to worry about others trying to kill you, you can occasionally live outside, not just in the small world of the Forbidden City.

After drawing a sketch by hand and noting the precautions, Zhu Youjian asked Wang Wenzheng to be responsible for renovating the Yangxin Palace. The eunuchs who followed the queen into the palace were also assigned tasks by him, taking control of Qianqing Palace and other places.

After the queen entered the palace, for Zhu Youjian, a question was placed in front of him:

The throne of an emperor without an heir is always unstable. For Zhu Youjian, the most important thing at the moment is to give birth to an heir. It would be best for the heir to be born from the queen to avoid various disputes over the reserve issue in the future.

In the next period of time, Zhu Youjian and Queen Zhou will be busy making humans!
There is no need to go into details about these matters in the harem. For Zhu Youjian, after Emperor Tianqi's filial piety period has passed, many things that were not suitable to be done during the period of observing the system must now be done.

Zhu Youjian is very busy these days, but at this time, someone is still causing trouble for him——

Wang Xianda, son of the late Xinjian Bo Wang Chengxun, competed with his elder brother Wang Xiantong for the hereditary title of Xinjian Bo.

Wang Xianda said that Wang Xiantong should not seize the title. Wang Xiantong said that Wang Xianda was not Wang Chengxun's son, and the two competed for the title.

This case of assaulting a nobleman began in the fifth year of Tianqi and has been debated for two years now. How could Zhu Youjian tell who was right and who was wrong if he couldn't decide for such a long time.

Feeling that the descendants of saints would also fight for the title, Zhu Youjian was too lazy to pay attention to the matter and directly asked the relevant departments to discuss it to see if new evidence could be found, and then intervene himself.

It was on this day that Wei Zhongxian took the initiative to go to Shu to stop the construction of the Sheng Temple and requested that the money and food used for the construction of the Sheng Temple be donated to the construction of the imperial mausoleum.

Zhu Youjian had already discussed this matter with him and naturally approved it immediately. He also issued an order to commend Wei Zhongxian and praise him for his loyalty to the late emperor. He also encouraged ministers to donate money to help build the imperial mausoleum.

Huang Liji, the chief minister of the cabinet, generously donated money and took the lead in donating one thousand taels of silver to the officials. With his actual actions, he expressed his loyalty to Zhu Youjian and Wei Zhongxian. Under the arrangement of Wei Zhongxian, a group of eunuch ministers began to donate money one after another. In just a few days, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were raised. This trend also spread to the local areas, and those local ministers and wealthy households who supported the eunuch party also donated money one after another.

There are also people who are blind. Yang Bangxian, the governor of Jiangxi, asked him to build a shrine for the eunuch Wei Zhongxian on September 30th. Calculating the time, this memorial should have been issued in August. Unexpectedly, when it was delivered to the capital, the emperor had already changed. Wei Zhongxian also took the initiative to request to stop building the temple, seemingly planning to retire.

Yang Bangxian ran into the muzzle of the gun, and Zhu Youjian forwarded his memorial directly to Wei Zhongxian, demanding that all relevant money and food be donated. Wei Zhongxian was showing his loyalty to the emperor, and he also relentlessly oppressed the ministers who supported him.

This kind of loyal behavior makes Zhu Youjian reluctant to get rid of him. If Wei Zhongxian has always been willing to do his best for himself, why has he not been able to fully grasp the power until now:
"After all, he is a member of the late emperor, and he has been nine thousand years old, and his heart has become wild. 』

"Now he looks like An Fen because he failed to establish a posthumous son and Liu Zhao's troops failed to enter the capital. 』

"If he succeeded in one of the two things, we wouldn't be in this situation now. 』

"I can't use the man who claims to be nine thousand years old!" 』

Not being confused by Wei Zhongxian's performance, Zhu Youjian clearly realized that Wei Zhongxian's powerlessness at this time was all superficial. As long as he was in the capital for one day and as long as there were still those eunuch ministers who were attached to him, he could not relax his vigilance towards Wei Zhongxian and be careful. He became a eunuch in the late Tang Dynasty.

On the same day, former bachelor Sun Chengzong came to congratulate himself on his ascension to the pole, which made Zhu Youjian realize that his ascension to the pole had already been reflected in Beizhili. Next comes further afield, and across the country.

However, there was also bad news. The Ministry of War received intelligence. On September 20, Hou Jin and the leader of Aohan who betrayed Lin Dan Khan ordered to join forces. They led thousands of troops to Bancheng and captured Lin Dan Khan to stay. The strong men robbed the young and old, cattle and sheep.

Zhu Youjian looked at the map and found that the location of Bancheng was very close to Chengde. This made him feel a sense of urgency again, guessing that this might be Hou Jin's reconnaissance route.

If troops are not deployed along this route, Hou Jin will not only be in Bancheng next time, but will probably continue southward to near the Great Wall.

If Hou Jin discovered that the Great Wall was in ruins, the defenders would have no fighting power. The changes that have occurred two years later may still happen.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian once again ordered Yuan Keli and Wang Xiangqian to take office, and ordered Mangui and others to inspect the Great Wall and estimate the money and food needed.

At the same time, people were also sent to the grassland to urge Kong Zhenyun to complete Lin Danhan's tribute as soon as possible. The Ming Dynasty needed Lin Danhan and needed him to contain Hou Jin on the grassland.

　"History of Ming Dynasty":
　　Emperor Zhuang Lie's wife, Queen Zhou, was originally from Suzhou and moved to Daxing. In the apocalypse, he was chosen to enter Xindi.

　　At that time, Concubine Liu Zhao of Shenzong took the Queen Mother's treasure, and all the affairs in the palace were reported to Queen Zhang of Xizong. Story: A wedding is held in the palace, and the queen will be accompanied by two noble people; if she is chosen, the empress dowager will wear a green gauze handkerchief, take gold and jade, and tie it to her arm; if she is not chosen, she will be put on the lady's sleeve with a year and month post, and she will be sent back with silver coins. .

　　Yi'an suspected that the queen was weak, so Concubine Zhao said: "Although she is weak now, she will grow up in the future." She was named Princess Xin.

　　The emperor ascended the throne and was made queen.

　　"Chongzhen Changbian":
　　September of the seventh year of Apocalypse:

　　Geng Yin, made the concubine Zhou the queen.

　　The first day, officials were sent to inform the northern and southern suburbs, Taimiao Temple, and Du Ji.

　　On this day, the British Duke Zhang Weixian was ordered to hold the ceremony, the bachelor Huang Liji held the book, and the bachelor Shi Feng came to hold the treasure. The ceremony was completed. All the officials expressed their congratulations, and ordered the wife to be exempted.

　　Emperor Xizong obeyed. At the Xuande Gate of the Imperial Palace, all the officials in plain clothes and gauze hats saluted.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)