As the eunuch Wang Gui said, recently, the Honglu Temple, Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Rites and various institutions in the palace have been preparing for the ceremony of the queen's enthronement.
Not only are the officials busy, but Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Wei also need to prepare, and they have to bathe and fast three days in advance.Zhu Gaoxu has been sleeping alone for three consecutive days without getting close to women and not eating meat.
The enthronement ceremony is even more complex than the throne ceremony.It took countless manpower and material resources, and this thing I did was actually very simple: it was to establish Guo Wei's title of queen.
However, Zhu Gaoxu did not look at this matter with a arrogant attitude of modern thinking, nor did he think it was purely an extravagant waste.
After he suddenly became the ruler of the country, he was also trying his best to understand the order at this time with his own thinking.
From the perspective of the philosophical perspective of governing the country, the Ming Dynasty absorbed a large amount of Confucianism and various dynasties.To value etiquette and morality should be to solemnly establish some so-called legitimate rules of power and hierarchy.
And from ministers to common people, this idea has been recognized and believed in for thousands of years; the determination of concepts has stabilized the power and legal principles of the entire world.
Only with mature ideas as the cornerstone of the entire social system, there will be no constant war and crime, or dissatisfaction.
(So Zhu Gaoxu admitted that the future democratic elections and other systems are more advanced power structures, but he did not think that it would be enough to rely solely on institutional rules; those things must have universal ideas and concepts as the cornerstone, equality, freedom, civil rights, etc. Who does that kind of thing now is to create chaos and crime for the world.)
Under the arrangement of the ministers, Zhu Gaoxu went to the second altar of heaven and earth to worship first, and then went to the Taimiao to worship his ancestors.
It seems that the emperor had to tell two kinds of nihilistic and mysterious things when doing every major thing, and fully interpreted the idea of the power of the king and the gods of the king.
Moreover, the only gods people in the Ming Dynasty never believed in, but the things that people in the world believed in and truly believed in were the heaven and earth and ancestors.
The next morning, the Fengtian Palace held a ceremony and the enthronement ceremony began.All the relatives, nobles, civil and military officials came outside the Fengtian Hall, and Zhu Gaoxu brought everyone to worship the incense table.After three bells and drums, everyone entered the hall.
Guo Wei had not come over yet, she was waiting in Kunning Palace.
Zhu Gaoxu and the ministers took the rehearsed lines and performed a serious answer.
When the officials of the Honglu Temple shouted: I have appointed Guo as the queen and ordered you to hold a feud to show your rituals!Then the second envoy of the chief and deputy, the palace maid and eunuch took the enthronement documents written by the Hanlin Academy and the seal of the queen and went to the harem.
The rituals and music were played in Fengtian Palace, and I waited for a long time.When the envoy who went to the harem came back, he reported that the queen had accepted the canonization.
At this time, Hu Yi, the Minister of Rites, took several officials to collect the edict on the table next to him. Hu Guang of the Hanlin Academy had already written it.
Several officials bowed to Zhu Gaoxu and went to Chengtianmen to announce the imperial edict, and issued an edict to the world that Guo was the Empress of the Ming Dynasty.
After a while, Guo Wei also came to Fengtian Hall under the guidance of the female official.She was wearing a dress and under the attention of everyone, she slowly walked into the hall and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu for gratitude.
All the ministers congratulated each other.
The officials and women who failed to attend the ceremony in Fengtian Palace had already written congratulatory forms and sent them to Wenlou to congratulate the queen.
(In a few days, the families of ministers and nobles will come to the Dashan Hall of the Imperial Palace to congratulate the queen in person. Because the wife of the imperial decree also has a salary and receives the royal grain from the royal family; the queen is also their boss in terms of status.)
The ceremony was roughly over.When Zhu Gaoxu got up, the civil servant gave a great gift.He took Guo Wei out of Fengtian Hall, and the couple went to the Fengxian Hall of the Family Temple together and then worshiped their ancestors. The enthronement ceremony was officially completed...
Guo Wei wore a nine-dragon four-phoenix crown, colorful and shiny, and two ears, which looked very luxurious. She wore a dark blue zoo, with various embroidery patterns and decorations of red, yellow, and white pearls and jade.
Such complicated dressing on her makes her slightly thin figure look even more inconsistent.
Her pure and white face seems to be better under the jewel-like phoenix crown, like jade and porcelain, beautiful and bright.No wonder women like jewelry, the precious decoration can really add a sense of delicacy.
Guo Wei's face was red, and she looked as nervous and novel as a bride.However, her and Zhu Gaoxu's sons are both a few years old.
The crowd walked to the yard of Fengxian Hall, and Zhu Gaoxu stood still and turned to look at Guo Wei.
Guo Wei's eyelashes trembled, her cheeks turned red like peach blossoms. She lowered her eyes and said softly: Thank you for your favor, I am like a dream today.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Weier is my first wife.As long as I have it, these are all you deserve.Everything will be old, but it will always be new; I remember those beautiful memories that are moved by, and that affection has always been there.
When Guo Wei heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Zhu Gaoxu with emotion.She seemed to remember these words on wedding night and Zhu Gaoxu said.
That happened nearly ten years ago; Zhu Gaoxu said before that he would not forget it, and it was far from being said again ten years later.
Guo Wei's eyes shone with crystal light. She smiled with tears in her eyes and said in a strange voice: As long as the emperor doesn't dislike it.
This is what she said back then.
Zhu Gaoxu reached out his hand to fight the battle formation, wiped away the tears from her eyes with the back of his fingers, and said: Weier, calm down, let's go in and speak to our ancestors.
Um!Guo Wei pursed her red lips and said.
In Fengxian Hall, in front of Taizu's portrait, the bricks and stones under the incense table have been completely repaired.
The tunnel below has also been filled up and has been repaired during the reign of the deposed prince.
However, Zhu Gaoxu was still quite emotional when he came here again.
Zhu Gaoxu thought of Ma Enhui and Miaojin again for a moment. If it weren’t for them, how could he have today?He thought to himself: The so-called moral and emotional part should not be excluded from women?
...A few days later, Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict: From this dynasty, the system of burial in the harem will be abolished.Then he began to enthrone concubines one after another.
The harem of the Ming Dynasty did not follow the Zhou rituals, so Zhu Gaoxu first added the title of imperial concubine; and sent envoys to the Mu Mansion to arrange etiquette and enthrone the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qian, Mu Sheng, as the imperial concubine.
Then he immediately conferred Miaojin as the imperial concubine, Yao Ji as the virtuous concubine, and Du Qianrui as the solemn concubine; all three of them were given golden seals and gilded books.
He also conferred Duan Xuehen as Depin; Park, a woman from Korea, was appointed as a Virgin.
The dozens of palace maids who had served in bed a while ago were all named various beauties, talents, and elected servants, replacing the original female officials and taking charge of the power of various palace institutions.
The enthronement of the harem is like rewarding meritorious officials and military generals, and the parties involved are very satisfied.Zhu Gaoxu gave the harem women a generous title to the maximum extent allowed by the system, and did not hesitate to add the title of imperial concubine to the Mu Mansion.
Only Miaojin seemed a little resistant, but she was not dissatisfied with the enthronement.When Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict directly and prepared her crown, clothes, seals and other items, she couldn't forcefully refuse.
Zhu Gaoxu first made his identity clear in the official newspaper when he was telling the death of the late emperor: the adopted daughter of Empress Renxiao Xu, after Duke Jing.
Then he appointed Miao Jin as the Imperial Concubine, and he could justify his public morality and status without any hiding and being unable to see others.
As for those rumors and unofficial history that are not recognized by the court, they cannot be used as topics on the table. In the end, they just add some topics to future generations.
According to rumors, Emperor Taizong once promised to enthrone the Imperial Concubine for Miao Jin; and in order to further reward the meritorious minister Mu family and to enthrone the Imperial Concubine, was it for Mu or to allocate the Imperial Concubine to Miao Jin... These secret matters can generally allow people to argue quietly after dinner.
Of course, these things cannot be used as topics in the court; who would use false rumors as arguments and make them publicly reasonable...
Those who are not satisfied with the enthronement of the harem are mostly civil officials of the court.When the ministers were visiting the Imperial Gate, they were talking about another truth: it was contrary to the ancestral system.
In order to prevent the harem from interfering in politics, Emperor Taizu set rules for the empress and concubines of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, they must choose from the people, and they cannot choose women of ministers and nobles; in order to prevent relatives from being too strong and interfering in the government.
Zhu Gaoxu's mother, Empress Renxiao, was the eldest daughter of the Xu family, the King of Zhongshan, and was born into a noble family. However, because Emperor Taizong proclaimed himself emperor as a vassal king, he had already married the Xu family, so there was no need to follow this system.
Zhu Gaoxu also ascended the throne as a vassal king, so the empress was the granddaughter of the Marquis of Wuding. There are precedents to follow, and no one mentioned this matter again.
However, the ministers’ suggestions are: after the priest proclaims himself emperor, he will be enthroned with concubines, and it is not advisable to choose from the noble family.
In addition, the etiquette for Mu's enthronement of the Imperial Concubine had not been carried out yet, so the officials asked for an order to reconsider it.
Zhu Gaoxu defended himself.
He was originally a vassal king in Yunnan. He originally wanted to guard the border for his father and had no intention of the throne. However, the Eastern Palace party was plotting to murder the king and father, so he had no choice but to raise an army and eventually was persuaded by his subjects to advance and succeed to the throne.
Zhu Gaoxu said that when he was a vassal king, he had begged his father and mother in person and wanted to take Mu as his wife, and had told the Mu family that later, the battle to attack the crime broke out and there was no chance to do this.
But this promise has made Mu wait in the boudoir until now.
If the agreement is torn down because he inherited the throne this time, it will hurt the face of the hero and damage the reputation of the Mu family, it will not be a great act and will not be a good example for the world.
The Taizu system can only be adapted to those who succeeded the throne by the crown prince. The vassal kings were praised as the eldest because of the difficulties of the country and were difficult to follow the old.
Among the civil servants, Qi Tai, Hu Yi, Gao Xianning and others all agreed with Zhu Gaoxu's remarks, and other civil servants had to give up.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not accept the minister's advice and sent someone to Mu Mansion to accept the ceremony.
... Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu did things quickly, and Xie Jin returned to the capital after he had almost completed the matter of enthroning Mu.
If it were a few days later, Xie Jin would probably have caught the matter of the imperial concubine Feng and said that it would not be so easy to compromise with the emperor.
When Zhu Gaoxu heard that Xie Jin had returned to Beijing from Jiaozhi Province to report his work, he suddenly felt a little headache.
Not only are the officials busy, but Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Wei also need to prepare, and they have to bathe and fast three days in advance.Zhu Gaoxu has been sleeping alone for three consecutive days without getting close to women and not eating meat.
The enthronement ceremony is even more complex than the throne ceremony.It took countless manpower and material resources, and this thing I did was actually very simple: it was to establish Guo Wei's title of queen.
However, Zhu Gaoxu did not look at this matter with a arrogant attitude of modern thinking, nor did he think it was purely an extravagant waste.
After he suddenly became the ruler of the country, he was also trying his best to understand the order at this time with his own thinking.
From the perspective of the philosophical perspective of governing the country, the Ming Dynasty absorbed a large amount of Confucianism and various dynasties.To value etiquette and morality should be to solemnly establish some so-called legitimate rules of power and hierarchy.
And from ministers to common people, this idea has been recognized and believed in for thousands of years; the determination of concepts has stabilized the power and legal principles of the entire world.
Only with mature ideas as the cornerstone of the entire social system, there will be no constant war and crime, or dissatisfaction.
(So Zhu Gaoxu admitted that the future democratic elections and other systems are more advanced power structures, but he did not think that it would be enough to rely solely on institutional rules; those things must have universal ideas and concepts as the cornerstone, equality, freedom, civil rights, etc. Who does that kind of thing now is to create chaos and crime for the world.)
Under the arrangement of the ministers, Zhu Gaoxu went to the second altar of heaven and earth to worship first, and then went to the Taimiao to worship his ancestors.
It seems that the emperor had to tell two kinds of nihilistic and mysterious things when doing every major thing, and fully interpreted the idea of the power of the king and the gods of the king.
Moreover, the only gods people in the Ming Dynasty never believed in, but the things that people in the world believed in and truly believed in were the heaven and earth and ancestors.
The next morning, the Fengtian Palace held a ceremony and the enthronement ceremony began.All the relatives, nobles, civil and military officials came outside the Fengtian Hall, and Zhu Gaoxu brought everyone to worship the incense table.After three bells and drums, everyone entered the hall.
Guo Wei had not come over yet, she was waiting in Kunning Palace.
Zhu Gaoxu and the ministers took the rehearsed lines and performed a serious answer.
When the officials of the Honglu Temple shouted: I have appointed Guo as the queen and ordered you to hold a feud to show your rituals!Then the second envoy of the chief and deputy, the palace maid and eunuch took the enthronement documents written by the Hanlin Academy and the seal of the queen and went to the harem.
The rituals and music were played in Fengtian Palace, and I waited for a long time.When the envoy who went to the harem came back, he reported that the queen had accepted the canonization.
At this time, Hu Yi, the Minister of Rites, took several officials to collect the edict on the table next to him. Hu Guang of the Hanlin Academy had already written it.
Several officials bowed to Zhu Gaoxu and went to Chengtianmen to announce the imperial edict, and issued an edict to the world that Guo was the Empress of the Ming Dynasty.
After a while, Guo Wei also came to Fengtian Hall under the guidance of the female official.She was wearing a dress and under the attention of everyone, she slowly walked into the hall and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu for gratitude.
All the ministers congratulated each other.
The officials and women who failed to attend the ceremony in Fengtian Palace had already written congratulatory forms and sent them to Wenlou to congratulate the queen.
(In a few days, the families of ministers and nobles will come to the Dashan Hall of the Imperial Palace to congratulate the queen in person. Because the wife of the imperial decree also has a salary and receives the royal grain from the royal family; the queen is also their boss in terms of status.)
The ceremony was roughly over.When Zhu Gaoxu got up, the civil servant gave a great gift.He took Guo Wei out of Fengtian Hall, and the couple went to the Fengxian Hall of the Family Temple together and then worshiped their ancestors. The enthronement ceremony was officially completed...
Guo Wei wore a nine-dragon four-phoenix crown, colorful and shiny, and two ears, which looked very luxurious. She wore a dark blue zoo, with various embroidery patterns and decorations of red, yellow, and white pearls and jade.
Such complicated dressing on her makes her slightly thin figure look even more inconsistent.
Her pure and white face seems to be better under the jewel-like phoenix crown, like jade and porcelain, beautiful and bright.No wonder women like jewelry, the precious decoration can really add a sense of delicacy.
Guo Wei's face was red, and she looked as nervous and novel as a bride.However, her and Zhu Gaoxu's sons are both a few years old.
The crowd walked to the yard of Fengxian Hall, and Zhu Gaoxu stood still and turned to look at Guo Wei.
Guo Wei's eyelashes trembled, her cheeks turned red like peach blossoms. She lowered her eyes and said softly: Thank you for your favor, I am like a dream today.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Weier is my first wife.As long as I have it, these are all you deserve.Everything will be old, but it will always be new; I remember those beautiful memories that are moved by, and that affection has always been there.
When Guo Wei heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Zhu Gaoxu with emotion.She seemed to remember these words on wedding night and Zhu Gaoxu said.
That happened nearly ten years ago; Zhu Gaoxu said before that he would not forget it, and it was far from being said again ten years later.
Guo Wei's eyes shone with crystal light. She smiled with tears in her eyes and said in a strange voice: As long as the emperor doesn't dislike it.
This is what she said back then.
Zhu Gaoxu reached out his hand to fight the battle formation, wiped away the tears from her eyes with the back of his fingers, and said: Weier, calm down, let's go in and speak to our ancestors.
Um!Guo Wei pursed her red lips and said.
In Fengxian Hall, in front of Taizu's portrait, the bricks and stones under the incense table have been completely repaired.
The tunnel below has also been filled up and has been repaired during the reign of the deposed prince.
However, Zhu Gaoxu was still quite emotional when he came here again.
Zhu Gaoxu thought of Ma Enhui and Miaojin again for a moment. If it weren’t for them, how could he have today?He thought to himself: The so-called moral and emotional part should not be excluded from women?
...A few days later, Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict: From this dynasty, the system of burial in the harem will be abolished.Then he began to enthrone concubines one after another.
The harem of the Ming Dynasty did not follow the Zhou rituals, so Zhu Gaoxu first added the title of imperial concubine; and sent envoys to the Mu Mansion to arrange etiquette and enthrone the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qian, Mu Sheng, as the imperial concubine.
Then he immediately conferred Miaojin as the imperial concubine, Yao Ji as the virtuous concubine, and Du Qianrui as the solemn concubine; all three of them were given golden seals and gilded books.
He also conferred Duan Xuehen as Depin; Park, a woman from Korea, was appointed as a Virgin.
The dozens of palace maids who had served in bed a while ago were all named various beauties, talents, and elected servants, replacing the original female officials and taking charge of the power of various palace institutions.
The enthronement of the harem is like rewarding meritorious officials and military generals, and the parties involved are very satisfied.Zhu Gaoxu gave the harem women a generous title to the maximum extent allowed by the system, and did not hesitate to add the title of imperial concubine to the Mu Mansion.
Only Miaojin seemed a little resistant, but she was not dissatisfied with the enthronement.When Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict directly and prepared her crown, clothes, seals and other items, she couldn't forcefully refuse.
Zhu Gaoxu first made his identity clear in the official newspaper when he was telling the death of the late emperor: the adopted daughter of Empress Renxiao Xu, after Duke Jing.
Then he appointed Miao Jin as the Imperial Concubine, and he could justify his public morality and status without any hiding and being unable to see others.
As for those rumors and unofficial history that are not recognized by the court, they cannot be used as topics on the table. In the end, they just add some topics to future generations.
According to rumors, Emperor Taizong once promised to enthrone the Imperial Concubine for Miao Jin; and in order to further reward the meritorious minister Mu family and to enthrone the Imperial Concubine, was it for Mu or to allocate the Imperial Concubine to Miao Jin... These secret matters can generally allow people to argue quietly after dinner.
Of course, these things cannot be used as topics in the court; who would use false rumors as arguments and make them publicly reasonable...
Those who are not satisfied with the enthronement of the harem are mostly civil officials of the court.When the ministers were visiting the Imperial Gate, they were talking about another truth: it was contrary to the ancestral system.
In order to prevent the harem from interfering in politics, Emperor Taizu set rules for the empress and concubines of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, they must choose from the people, and they cannot choose women of ministers and nobles; in order to prevent relatives from being too strong and interfering in the government.
Zhu Gaoxu's mother, Empress Renxiao, was the eldest daughter of the Xu family, the King of Zhongshan, and was born into a noble family. However, because Emperor Taizong proclaimed himself emperor as a vassal king, he had already married the Xu family, so there was no need to follow this system.
Zhu Gaoxu also ascended the throne as a vassal king, so the empress was the granddaughter of the Marquis of Wuding. There are precedents to follow, and no one mentioned this matter again.
However, the ministers’ suggestions are: after the priest proclaims himself emperor, he will be enthroned with concubines, and it is not advisable to choose from the noble family.
In addition, the etiquette for Mu's enthronement of the Imperial Concubine had not been carried out yet, so the officials asked for an order to reconsider it.
Zhu Gaoxu defended himself.
He was originally a vassal king in Yunnan. He originally wanted to guard the border for his father and had no intention of the throne. However, the Eastern Palace party was plotting to murder the king and father, so he had no choice but to raise an army and eventually was persuaded by his subjects to advance and succeed to the throne.
Zhu Gaoxu said that when he was a vassal king, he had begged his father and mother in person and wanted to take Mu as his wife, and had told the Mu family that later, the battle to attack the crime broke out and there was no chance to do this.
But this promise has made Mu wait in the boudoir until now.
If the agreement is torn down because he inherited the throne this time, it will hurt the face of the hero and damage the reputation of the Mu family, it will not be a great act and will not be a good example for the world.
The Taizu system can only be adapted to those who succeeded the throne by the crown prince. The vassal kings were praised as the eldest because of the difficulties of the country and were difficult to follow the old.
Among the civil servants, Qi Tai, Hu Yi, Gao Xianning and others all agreed with Zhu Gaoxu's remarks, and other civil servants had to give up.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not accept the minister's advice and sent someone to Mu Mansion to accept the ceremony.
... Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu did things quickly, and Xie Jin returned to the capital after he had almost completed the matter of enthroning Mu.
If it were a few days later, Xie Jin would probably have caught the matter of the imperial concubine Feng and said that it would not be so easy to compromise with the emperor.
When Zhu Gaoxu heard that Xie Jin had returned to Beijing from Jiaozhi Province to report his work, he suddenly felt a little headache.
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