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Volume 1 Yuzhou Snow Chapter 871 Finale (4)

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    On the sixth day of March in the eighth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, in the early morning of the third day after Zhengde's death, the death bells tolled in unison inside and outside the capital. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty such as the "Da Ming Hui Dian" and the "Da Ming Gathering Ceremony", officials in Beijing and the concubines of the princesses and princesses all wrote  They wore plain mourning clothes, men wore black gauze hats, black horn belts, and hemp shoes, and women wore mourning clothes and jewelry. They all entered the palace through the Xihua Gate to mourn.  ¡Ì¨N The Qianqing Palace is where the emperor¡¯s coffin rests. Thousands of people entered the palace with loud cries from outside the Xihua Gate to pay homage. Under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Rites, they knelt down and bowed four times. At the same time, people were sent to the capital to  Under the auspices of funeral officials from various places, officials outside Beijing also wore black horns, hemp shoes and black gauze in mourning, and led local officials, gentry and people to set up incense burners to worship.  No matter what happened to Zhengde during his lifetime, he was the Ming Emperor after all, the master of all officials and people. His funeral was a national event, and no one could escape or escape.  At the right time, the emperor's coffin was buried in a grand funeral. The funeral procession meandered for more than ten miles, playing and beating and crying, and sent Zhengde's coffin to Changshou Mountain in Changping on the outskirts of Beijing. Kangling, the mausoleum of Zhengde that had been built since he ascended the throne, has been basically completed.  , Zhengde¡¯s coffin was buried here.  Although starting from today, according to the etiquette, the whole country will continue to mourn for twenty-seven days, weddings and entertainment are also prohibited nationwide, and the mourning clothes cannot be taken off until the day of mourning is over, but after the emperor was buried, the court  The organization will begin to operate normally and everything will be on track.  On the ninth day of March in the eighth year of Zhengde, the sixth day after Zhengde's death, the British Duke Zhang Lun and the cabinet scholar Yang Yiqing welcomed Huai Gong Wang Zhu Zainuo into Beijing from Raozhou Prefecture. Also accompanying Zhu Zainuo into Beijing was Huai Princess Liu  The family and the few relatives in the Huai Prince's Mansion, including the servants, maids, wives, and old slaves, totaled no more than fifty people, which shows that the Huai Prince's Mansion has actually declined.  This is not surprising. Many descendants of the Zhu family are far away from the bloodline of Taizu, and their family fortunes are gradually declining. Many of them have even started living like ordinary people, and some of them are small officials in important business areas.  , not all are prosperous and wealthy families.  Song Nan led the civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the arrival of the future emperor. The future emperor Zhu Zaihuan was sitting in a carriage. The less than seven-year-old man was obviously a little panicked when facing such a big scene. From time to time, he looked at the man wearing a black gauze behind him.  Rely on a woman.  That woman is obviously Princess Huai, the mother of the future emperor.  Song Nan and others came forward to pay homage. Although Zhu Zaiyu could not answer, Princess Huai just nodded and shook her head, as if she was extremely tired from the long journey, or she had never seen the world and didn't know what to say; Song Nan also  It was not difficult for them to order people to enter the palace, order Zhang Yonghaosheng to serve, and order officials from the Ministry of Rites to assist the eunuchs in teaching them the etiquette in the palace and the upcoming enthronement ceremony.  Since we are still in mourning, the enthronement ceremony should not be too noisy. Song Nan and the ministers discussed that it would be simple and grand, and the sooner the better. The country cannot be without a king for a day.  On March 12, Zhu Zainu, accompanied by his mother, led Song Nan, Yang Yiqing, Zhang Lun and other civil and military officials to worship heaven and earth, ascended the throne as emperor, and named him Longqing.  There was a small episode on the issue of the reign name. When Song Nan presided over the ministers to discuss the issue of the reign name, someone proposed to use 'Jiajing' as the new reign name. This proposal was supported by many officials, including Yang Yiqing and Zhang  Lun also thought that this year name was good, saying: Jia means goodness and beauty, and Jing means peace and harmony. Taking this as the year name means stability, peace, good fortune and good luck in the future.  However, hearing this word was like a thunder in Song Nan's ears. No matter how ignorant he was about history, he also knew that after Zhengde, it was Jiajing. That Emperor Jiajing was an extremely powerful and shrewd emperor. He did some great rituals when he came to the throne.  For this reason, he killed and exiled hundreds of ministers, and later he took over all the power. Although he knew that even if he used the title of Jiajing, the emperor would not be the same emperor, but Song Nan still felt alarmed, so when he made the final decision,  I just don't agree to use Jiajing as the year name.  The officials asked Song Nan why, and Song Nan said: "This year name is unlucky. Jiajing Jiajing seems to mean good luck and stability in the world, but the word always sounds awkward. 'Jiajing' um I heard it wrong.  Doesn't "Jia Jing" mean that my new family will be clean and my life will be poor and helpless?" The ministers rolled their eyes. Isn't this just looking for trouble?  However, since Song Nan did not agree, there was nothing anyone could do. In the end, Yang Yiqing proposed the reign name Longqing in order to resolve the matter as soon as possible. Song Nan nodded in agreement this time, and the minor turmoil over the reign name subsided.  Everyone unanimously attributed Song Nan's move to Song Nan's deliberate action. The reason was actually very simple. The king of Zhenguo was deliberately entangled in such a trivial matter to gain authority among the officials and see if there was any.  People just go against him for such a trivial matter.  But in fact, since Yang Ting, Fei Hong, Zhang Wei, and dozens of officials they implicated were all captured and sent to prison, everyone in the court was from Song Nan, Yang, Qing, and Zhang Lun's faction. Who would disobey Song Nan's wishes and suppress the country?  The prince's move was completely unnecessary.    After Emperor Longqing came to the throne, he went to court for the first time. Under the chairmanship of Song Nan, there was a major change in the appointment of the six departments of the outer court and the cabinet. Yang Yiqing became the new chief assistant of the cabinet, and Wang Shouren and Liu Yu were added to the cabinet.  , Wang Jianzhi and three others, plus Liu Ji who stayed in the cabinet, there are still five people.  Among the six departments, Yang Yiqing concurrently served as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Wang Shouren served as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the remaining four departments were all replaced except He Jian, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who remained in office.  At the suggestion of Zhang Lun and Yang Yiqing, the Tuanying, Shenji Camp, Shenshu Camp, the Second Foreign Military Camp and the 5th Army Governor's Mansion in Beijing were merged together, collectively called the Beijing Camp, with a total of 20 battalions.  Nearly 200,000, the post of Grand Governor was established; although Song Nan tried his best to refuse, he eventually became the first Grand Governor of the Beijing Camp.  Zhang Lun, the former governor of the regiment camp, was appointed deputy governor and concurrently served as chief governor of the Fifth Army Commandery Office, commanding the troops and horses of the guard station outside Beijing.  Jiang Bin and Xu Tai were promoted to the position of Tongzhi of the Jingying camp. Each of his subordinates commanded five battalions of soldiers and horses of the Jingying camp. Ma Mingpengyang was promoted to the post of chief minister of the Jingying camp with the title of Marquis. He also served as the admiral of the Yuanshenshu camp and the second foreign military camp. The rest were  In addition to the original marquises of the Tuanying camp who remained in office, five new marquises were granted the title of marquises and entered the Beijing camp to command the troops.  Except for Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao, these five people are all young generals who emerged from the northwest war and counter-insurgency operations, and Wang Yong naturally became the admiral of the personal guard camp of Song Nan, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp.  Song Nan immediately proposed that he should step down from the position of commander of the Jinyiwei. This hat is too small, and it is not suitable to wear this hat all the time. The candidate is actually obvious, and there is no one else suitable except Wan Zhi.  After Hou Dabiao left office, Wan Zhi proposed the position of Fusi Governor of Jinyiwei Bei Town on the spot. Huang Hui and Zheng Da, deputy envoys of Fusi in Bei Town, were both suitable candidates. In the end, Song Nan finalized Huang Hui's replacement as Beizhen  Fu Si suppressed Fu, while Zheng Da was transferred to the general office and promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei.  This big change in positions is, to put it bluntly, a big division of the fruits of victory. We have got what we should have, and we have what we shouldn¡¯t have. Everyone from top to bottom is very satisfied with the result.  Although some officials and some princes raised objections to such a sudden restructuring of the Beijing camp, their voices seemed too small at this time; looking at the little emperor who was less than seven years old sitting on the emperor's throne, they knew everything  The struggle is in vain.  What they don't know is that Song Nan has already agreed with Zhang Lun and Yang Yiqing that some marquises in the capital camp will be cleared out one after another, and some of the outsiders in the outer court who are just sitting on the sidelines will eventually be kicked out. But all of this  There's no need to rush things, just do it slowly after you stabilize. It's actually too easy to cause trouble for them.  Emperor Longqing on the throne approved all the suggestions one by one. In fact, this child under seven years old had no idea what these ministers were saying. Every time the ministers said something, he looked helplessly to his side.  The queen mother with a black veil on her face, and her queen mother also nodded in agreement.  So the little emperor said in a sweet voice: "It's accurate!"  This mechanical process seemed to have been rehearsed beforehand.  Song Nan looked at Zhang Yong, who was standing aside. Zhang Yong glanced sideways at him with a proud and meaningful look, and Song Nan also gave him a look of approval.   April 18th was the day when Song Nan was ordered to marry Princess Kang Ning. The marriage of the most powerful official in the dynasty to the princess was naturally a matter of national celebration. Although this wedding was simply a joke in the eyes of many people, Song Nan ruled the world.  It is simply an insult to Ming Dynasty etiquette to marry two head wives for the first time.  But this wedding was cloaked in the guise of the late emperor's charter, and no one could criticize it.  Many people are secretly speculating on the British government's attitude towards this. Some people hope that the British government Zhang Lun and Song Nan will fall out because of this matter, and even go their separate ways to fight. Then it is possible to take advantage of the troubled waters.  On the day of the wedding, the British Duke Zhang Lun was not present, which made everyone involved in the wedding murmur secretly. It seemed that this turmoil was going to happen sooner or later.  However, what happened next surprised them. When Princess Kangning entered the wedding hall, she took the initiative to pour tea to Zhang Peipei, the lady of the Zhenguo County Prince's Palace, and called her sister, obviously treating herself as a concubine.  According to the later memories of those present, Zhang Peiyi had a straight face at first, but after the princess poured tea and saluted her sister, Zhang Peiyi had a smile on her face. Not long after, half a quarter of an hour before the wedding banquet started, the British Duke Zhang Lun  Finally arrived, bringing generous gifts and congratulations.  Someone saw with their own eyes that it was Zhang Lun who Zhang Pei sent people to invite. He must have told Zhang Lun everything about the salute, so this dramatic scene happened.  Although the good people were disappointed, they were also impressed by the skills of the princes and princesses in the country. The status of the wives and concubines of the princes were very different. Some were relatives of the emperor, some were from a small family in the market, and one was said to be from Nanjing.  An oiran lady from Lingyun Pavilion, what kind of power allows such a group of people to live in harmony and peace, what kind of ability can make everyone from the princess to the oiran surround one person, this is really a mystery.  .  "Moreover, it is said that the daughter of Yang Yiqing, the chief minister of the dynasty, is also going to join this big family. People would rather??I speculate that Yang Yiqing gave his daughter to Song Nan because of his official position, and he did not want to believe that it was Yang Yiqing's daughter who was willing to marry Song Nan, and Yang Yiqing was willing to let his daughter marry Song Nan as his concubine. After all, this is  Such a shameful thing.  All this became the most attractive topic of conversation in the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty. Jokes of this kind even leaked out in teahouses and restaurants, and some bored and unsuccessful scholars spent a lot of energy behind closed doors to write the so-called "  The secret book "The Art of Controlling the Daughters of Zhenguojunwang" was sold secretly, and it is said that a lot of money was made. It can also be called a strange story in the world.
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