My Daming New Empire

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To welcome the gods is to set up a banquet to welcome the gods into the door; to lay jade and silk is to welcome the gods with extremely precious jade and silk after the arrival of the gods.

Jinzu is to start serving dishes; Chuxian, Yaxian and Final Xian are the emperor toasting the gods, and at the end of this link, the emperor also has to drink with the gods.

The emperor enjoyed the wine and food in the blessing, and then removed all the tributes from the altar, and moved them to the burner wood stove to burn them for the gods to enjoy. While busy sending the gods, the emperor also had to look at these sacrifices The burnt burning, that is, "Wang Liao".

All these links must be entertained by the music played by the optimistic Taoist priests.

Although today is the abdication ceremony, since it is a place to borrow gods, these procedures are also indispensable, but the procedures are slightly different.

Sizheng, that is, at ten o'clock in the morning, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji boarded the Heaven and Earth Altar on the lower and upper circles, and the ceremony officially began.

Under the stage, there were thousands of civil and military ministers, tens of thousands of guards, and tens of thousands of envoys from all over the world who came to participate in the celebration.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Zhu Di first worshiped heaven and earth, and then read out the edict of abdication.

In addition to Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di, there is another important person who is the "Abdication Officer", who is held by Jian Yi, who is responsible for presenting Zhu Di's seal ribbon to the new emperor Zhu Zhanji.

After handing over the Xishou, Zhu Di personally put on Zhu Zhanji the twelve-pronged emperor's crown.In addition, it began to "sacrifice to heaven and earth, the five mountains, and the four ruins" to inform God about the Zen practice of the grandparents and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Zhanji is now the son of heaven and the emperor, he still has to be called "Chen Zhanji" when offering sacrifices to heaven. This is also the only occasion where ancient emperors called themselves "Chen XX".

Then the sacrifices were burned, and at this time, Zhu Zhanji also issued a succession edict, announcing that he had officially become the "third" emperor of Ming Dynasty.Immediately afterwards, the first imperial decree was issued.

"Today I inherit the emperor's precepts. It takes the 21st year of Yongle as the first year of orthodoxy. It is agreed to inherit Zhengshuo, inherit the color, the same emblem, the same law and measure, inherit the soil, and amnesty the world; since death, all injustices will be forgiven. They are all pardoned."

That is to say, although Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, except for the year name, all the rules will remain the same, and at the same time, he will amnesty the world.

At noon, that is, at twelve o'clock at noon, the hall of sacrifice and the hall of abdication are over, but at this time, in addition to the emperor and all civil and military officials returning to the palace, the envoys from all over the world are still staying in the fasting palace, and there will also be a large banquet here to entertain the envoys.

On the way back from the Temple of Heaven and Earth, the people still did not disperse, and there were even more people.

At this time, everyone knew that the succession to the throne had been completed, and the voice of the people became Congratulations to Your Majesty, Congratulations to the Supreme Emperor.

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing at this moment: "The Supreme Emperor seems to sound better than His Majesty the Emperor."

Zhu Zhanji also smiled and said: "The grandson is still young, and he is a great treasure. He is trembling and can't help himself. Therefore, please ask the emperor's grandfather to teach the emperor the emperor, and the grandson will do everything he can."

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Xunzheng?"

Political training was something that Qianlong created. Before him, no one had done it like this, so Zhu Di was a little surprised for a while.

Although he didn't know the meaning of Xunzheng, but from the literal understanding, he could also know that Zhu Zhanji asked him to be the master of some major events.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Grandson doesn't want to be a loner, and I hope Grandpa Huang can continue to supervise grandson."

Zhu Di pondered for a while, and didn't say that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

They are grandparents. Although there are some small conflicts due to the power struggle, everything is within the controllable range.

Zhu Zhanji is now willing to let him continue to dictate, which also means that Zhu Zhanji's control of power is very rational.

He wants to fight for the throne because the overall situation of the imperial court is basically stable, so he doesn't want Zhu Di to ruin all this.

Especially in terms of industrial development, business development, and immigration plans, if Zhu Di made a mistake now, it would be very troublesome to remedy it.

So he must control everything and prevent Zhu Di from causing damage.

However, he also didn't want to see a generation of great emperors being lonely. In the original history, Zhu Di still had two years to live, because the Yongle period was only 22 years.

In the past two years, as long as Zhu Di is not allowed to affect his future development plans, Zhu Di has very rich experience in many political struggles.

Long Nian arrived at Chengtianmen, and this time, the civil and military ministers entered the palace with Long Nian.

The inside and outside of Fengtian Hall were cleaned up today, and September is the season of crisp autumn. The ministers did not feel tired, on the contrary, they were full of energy, and lined up from inside Fengtian Hall to outside according to their status.

This was the first time that Fengtian Hall was opened in the afternoon. When Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji entered the hall hand in hand, amidst the eunuch's slogan of "His Majesty the Supreme Emperor is here, His Majesty the Emperor is here, there is a solemn drum.

Zhu Zhanji has issued an edict of succession at the Temple of Heaven and Earth, and now, he is going to issue a formal edict of enthronement.In addition, all the important ministers also wrote letters to congratulate the new emperor on his enthronement.

The officials of the Imperial Academy hold the imperial edict and use the treasure before the imperial court, and the officials of the Honglu Temple play and issue it. The officials of the Imperial Academy hold the imperial edict.The guide goes to Chengtianmen to open the reading, and salutes as usual.

Zhang Fu, the Duke of England, told heaven and earth, Xu Jingchang, the Duke of Dingguo, told the ancestral temple, Chen Mao, Marquis of Ningyang, told Sheji, and bowed to say a few feasts, that is, the throne of emperor.When he ascended the throne, the Zhongguan issued an edict that all officials of Honghe Temple were exempted from expressing congratulations, performed five prostrations and three kowtows, and went to Chengtian Gate to listen to the edict.

All these procedures went through once, and then Zhu Di stepped down to the throne, and Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

Following the rhythm of the drum music, all civil and military officials knelt down and shouted: "Long live His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, long live His Majesty the Emperor."

Zhu Zhanji's enthronement edict totaled [-] characters and was written by Xie Jin.He has a literary talent, and an imperial edict is written like delicious food and wine, which is admirable.

First of all, he praised Zhu Di's literary and military strategy, which was hard to match before, which greatly comforted Zhu Di.

Then he praised Zhu Zhanji a lot, thinking that Zhu Zhanji's reforms made the world happy.

The world is amnesty, except for treason, children and grandchildren murdering grandparents, parents, wives and concubines killing husbands, slaves and maidservants killing their masters, there is no forgiveness, other crimes have been discovered, have not been discovered, have been established, and have not been established, regardless of the size of the crime. , Those who dare to point out and forgive the previous matter will be punished for their crimes.

In terms of civil affairs, before December 19th of Yongle, those who were in arrears and owed unpaid tax grains, feed beans, household registration grains, and those who had reported to the government but had not delivered them would be exempted.

But to avoid the 20-year household registration of Yongle, grain, and other places in arrears of horse grass and charcoal, since December of the 20th year of Yongle, it will be exempted.

Various places are in arrears for farming and mulberry, various courses, granaries, croups, fish courses, etc., and have died and lost horses, camels, donkeys, mules, cattle, sheep and other livestock, as well as reeds, copper and iron pigments, mats and bamboos Wood and other items, such as chasing and accompanying pearls, have not been paid, and the penalties for all stolen goods will be doubled, and unfinished pieces such as horses will be exempted.

Soldiers and civilians from all over the country were forced by the government to sell their wives and concubines to others because they were chasing and breeding horses. The edict will be redeemed by the government until the date of the edict, and no excuses are allowed to delay it. Those who are old and married are not here. example.

From then on, they died and bred horses, and they only chased them according to Hongwu's routine.He escaped and moved to other households, and he forgives his crimes. Xu Yu was the first to sue in the lawsuit and sent him back to his original place.

In terms of military administration, the army will be compressed. Except for the northern and southwestern frontier armies, the inland military guards will either be transferred to elites, or transferred to the navy, or transferred to local government officials.

And the navy will continue to expand, rush to build large ships, and unify the world.

After Wang Yan finished reading a paragraph, his own eunuch took the edict and sent it directly outside the Chengtian Gate to announce it to the world.

And the people of Ming Dynasty all praised it as a benevolent government.

Until sunset, when many ceremonies were over, Zhu Zhanji was about to receive envoys from various countries.

At this time, he stepped down from the throne, bowed down to Zhu Di who was sitting next to him, and begged him to continue his political training.

This was a ceremony that was not planned at the beginning, and Zhu Di was invited to teach politics, which is unprecedented.

Jian Yi and the others were shocked, but they could not object directly, otherwise, they would offend Zhu Di to death.Although Zhu Di stepped down from the throne, it was only a matter of saying that he wanted to execute several ministers.

Zhu Di said with a smile at this time: "There has never been an act of political training. I am sixty-three, and I am exhausted. From now on, I only wish to help my immigrants from Nanzhou and bring Nanzhou into our Ming territory. Therefore, I will take care of all political affairs. No matter, just contribute to the military."

Zhu Zhanji begged again and again, but Zhu Di still shouldn't, just saying that he is old and wants to enjoy a few more years of blessings in the future.

Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to let him.

Afterwards, the envoys who came back from the Temple of Heaven and Earth entered the palace to salute together in a group of thousands of people.