nownovels Chapter 869: Help The Horse And Send Him Off For A Ride, Emperor Zhu Biao! [Please Subscribe, Please
Chapter 869: Help The Horse And Send Him Off For A Ride, Emperor Zhu Biao! [Please Subscribe, Please
Time flies, and the twenty-two years of Hongwu also pass by in a blink of an eye.
Zhu Yuanzhang officially announced his abdication as Emperor Taishang on December 30, the 22nd year of Hongwu. Prince Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne on January 1 next year.
This day of succession to the throne was also the day on which Prince Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne and was finally decided upon by Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of civil and military officials after several discussions.
Because January 1st, as the first day of the new year, itself has the meaning of the beginning of one yuan and the renewal of everything!
When Prince Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne and became the emperor, it was also equivalent to opening a new chapter for the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, it can be said that it is most appropriate for Prince Zhu Biao to succeed to the throne on January 1st.
In the twenty-third year of Hongwu's reign, on January 1st, Mao hour began (five o'clock in the morning).
In the early morning, Yingtian Mansion was still covered with a slightly chilly mist that had not yet dissipated.
And in this hazy mist, there are 9,000 local guards, corps, and naval generals, 4,000 local provincial, prefecture, and county civil servants, thousands of civil and military officials of the capital, noble marquises, and various people. College professor and lecturer.
They all stood in their respective positions early in accordance with the previous arrangements.
At the same time, all civil servants and generals, noble marquises, professors and lecturers wore Jinxian crowns on their heads, red clothes and red clothes, and tied around their waists such as knee-coverings, leather belts, large belts, jade pendants, large ribbons, etc., and they all looked solemn. To wait.
The bright red, solemn and gorgeous new court uniforms made of Sichuan brocade sometimes fluttered in the wind, making all the civil servants and generals, noble marquises, professors and lecturers look extraordinary.
Outside Zhengyang Gate, among the solemn and solemn honor guards, there is a large movable palace sedan chair.
In the palace sedan chair, Zhu Biao also changed out of the prince's court clothes that he had always worn in the past, and put on the truly solemn, gorgeous, solemn and heavy emperor's court clothes!
Ma Xiuying, who has now been promoted to Queen of Taishang, looked at the faint nervousness on her son Zhu Biao's face, and while helping him tidy up his clothes, she said with a smile:
"When your father ascended the throne, I didn't know how nervous he was. He couldn't sleep the whole night."
"He kept pulling me around all night and kept saying:
'Sister, do you think it would be better for us to step out with our left foot first, or with our right foot first?'
’ What if we forget the steps to ascend the throne?”
‘When I ascend the throne tomorrow, if the weather is bad, will it be considered unlucky?’
After hearing his mother's words, Zhu Biao was successfully diverted and couldn't help but ask:
"Is there such a thing?!!"
"Then my father still remembers whether he stepped out with his left foot first? Or did he step out with his right foot first?"
"Is the weather good or bad on the day my father ascends the throne?"
"I don't seem to remember much."
Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying also smiled and said:
"He has long forgotten, but I still remember that he went out with his left foot first.
"The weather on the day he ascended the throne was also very good, just as good as today."
...
While Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying and Zhu Biao, mother and son, were chatting calmly and warmly, at 3:30 (5:45) outside, the sky was slightly bright.
When the ceremonial officer outside Zhengyang Gate saw the first ray of sunlight falling on the word [Yang] in the middle of Zhengyang Gate, he immediately waved the letter flag in his hand.
When the artillery honor guard soldiers on the side saw the letter flag falling, they immediately lit the artillery fire in front of them and fired it into the sky.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"..."
Ninety-five extremely loud and extremely powerful artillery pieces roared and exploded, instantly resounding throughout Yingtian Mansion.
The continuous roar and explosion of artillery was like a signal, telling all the civil servants and generals, noble marquises, professors and lecturers, and ordinary people throughout Yingtian Mansion that the succession ceremony of Emperor Zhu Biao had officially begun.
All civil servants, military officers, noble marquises, professors and lecturers, and ordinary people were all inspired.
At the same time, countless fireworks and firecrackers were launched into the sky together, exploding into extremely colorful fireworks one after another in mid-air.
The ritual and music procession that spread from outside the Zhengyang Gate to the Fengtian Hall was like knocking down a domino, and one after another began to play the magnificent, majestic, majestic, solemn, solemn, and heavy ceremony music.
Inside the palace sedan chair, Queen Ma Xiuying of Taishang, who heard the roar of artillery, the explosion of fireworks and the playing of music outside, also knew that the auspicious moment had arrived, patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder and said with a happy smile:
"Go, your father is waiting for you outside!"
Zhu Biao nodded heavily. When he walked to the door curtain, he suddenly looked back and said with a smile:
"Then I'll go out with my left foot first!"
After saying that, Zhu Biao took his left foot and walked towards the outside of the palace sedan.
Taishang Queen Ma Xiuying couldn't help but smile when she heard this.
When Zhu Biao walked outside the palace sedan and saw the scene in front of him, Dang even couldn't help but his eyes turned red.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang was standing next to a royal horse in front of him, holding the horse's reins with one hand and turning his head to look at him with a grin.
You must know that January 1st is the time when spring cold passes. In addition, at this time, it is also the time when frost and dew are heavy, so Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing and waiting, was inevitably contaminated by some dew.
And what kind of virtue and ability does he, Zhu Biao, have to let his father stand outside in the cold spring and wait for him?!
No etiquette officer had ever told him before!
If the courtesy officer had told him, he would never have agreed, and he would never have allowed the emperor to just stand outside and wait like this!
And if the official Li didn't tell him, or the official didn't know it, it was his father's own decision.
Either his father didn't let the etiquette officer tell him!
And whether it's the former or the latter, they both represent his father's profound love for him!
When he thought of this, Zhu Biao would really want to cry if the current situation did not allow it.
Looking at the stunned Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang also changed from his previous majestic attitude, and said with a gentle expression:
"It's time to mount up."
Zhu Biao walked up to Zhu Yuanzhang and said with a slight choke in his voice:
"..."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and did not let Zhu Biao continue. He said with relief on his face:
"Don't delay the auspicious moment, get on your horse quickly."
Then, with the personal support of Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taishang, Zhu Biao climbed onto the royal horse.
The historians on the side also excitedly recorded this eternity-unseen scene before them:
[In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, on January 1st, Emperor Taishang personally helped the emperor to mount his horse!]
At the same time, there were even more talented painters who painted the scene in front of them.
Then, Zhu Yuanzhang took the reins of the horse and personally sent Zhu Biao toward the palace.
The historians who also followed also took notes again and recorded:
[On January 1, the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Emperor Taishang personally sent the emperor off! 】
The master of painting also painted the scene in front of him with a splash of ink.
At the same time, all the historians and painters could not help but burst into tears.
It's not easy. In the past thousands of years, when it came to the change of the emperor's position, even father and son would doubt each other and kill each other, and brothers would write letters to each other and kill each other.
There is no founding king who holds real power, has unparalleled prestige, is still in his prime, and can live for at least another ten or eight years, would be willing to take the initiative to give the throne to the prince, and even worry that the prince's prestige is not enough, and personally support the prince. Get on your horse and get a ride!
But now there is finally an emperor who is not obsessed with power and position, and is willing to take the initiative to give the throne to the prince in the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period, and personally helps the prince on his horse and sends him off. Isn't this an act of unparalleled saintliness? !!
Based on this alone, many historians believe that Zhu Yuanzhang is enough to be called a "saint"!!!
Later, when Zhu Biao passed the throne to Zhu Xiongying in his old age, he also took the initiative to abdicate as Emperor Taishang, and then personally helped Zhu Xiongying onto his horse and sent him off.
When Zhu Xiongying was old, he would just like his father and grandfather, personally help the prince he chose to mount the horse.
After three generations of Taishang emperors and emperors since the founding of the People's Republic of China, "helping the horse and giving him a ride" has become a necessary procedure and routine for the emperor to normally succeed to the throne after the Ming Dynasty.
In later generations, when the emperor reaches a certain age, or feels that his health is declining, he will basically choose to abdicate the throne to Emperor Taishang, and then help his prince on a horse and give him a ride to help the new emperor establish his prestige.
And this is a story for another day.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang held the reins of the horse and led Zhu Biao through Zhengyang Gate slowly.
On the streets on the left and right sides behind Zhengyang Gate, local civil servants and military officers in red court uniforms were waiting eagerly. When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao passed by on horseback, they all knelt down and worshiped:
"Dai Haokuo, Magistrate of Qiongshan County, Yazhou, comes to see Your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Thousands of powerful people who control and govern hundreds of households in Yazhou are here to see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Jiang Yingzhuo from Yazhou Hundred Households, please see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Si Jiayou, magistrate of Lingshui County, Wanzhou, comes to see your majesty! Long live your majesty, long live long live!"
"Wanzhou has hundreds of households to control the ancestors and secure the country. See your majesty! Long live, long live, (bhaa) long live your majesty!"
"The music that is loved by hundreds of households in ten thousand states, please see your majesty! Long live, long live, long live your majesty!"
Whenever Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao passed by a local civil official or military general, there would be a local civil official or military general who bowed to the ground and chanted his official position and name.
At the same time, standing behind the local civil servants and military generals on both sides, the left guard and right guard of the government army with strong swords will also hold the weapon in their right hand and bang it heavily on their left breastplate, and say the same high words in their mouths. shouted:
"Long live your Majesty!"
"Long live!"
"Long live!"
Thousands of government guards united in one voice and rushed straight towards Yunxiao!
In the huge Yingtian Mansion, no matter where you are, you can hear Wen Hao's mighty voice of "Long Live the Mountain".
Riding on the horse, listening to the names and official positions of various local civil servants and military generals, Zhu Biao had an inexplicable feeling as if he was slowly walking through every territory of the Ming Dynasty.
But, I have to say, this feeling is really good.
Soon Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao rode horses from Zhengyang Gate to Hongwu Gate, then walked through the Thousand-Step Corridor from Hongwu Gate, and then passed through Chengtian Gate, Duanmen and Meridian Gate one after another.
Wherever he went, officials and generals would kneel down and worship:
"Hong Yuanju, the head of the Department of Cleansing and Cleaning in Dushui, Ministry of Industry, is here to see your Majesty! Long live your Majesty, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Han Mingcheng, the head of the Peking Officials Department of the Ministry of Punishments, is here to see Your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Wan Hancai, the head of the Department of Ceremonies and Officials of the Ministry of Etiquette, comes to see Your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao rode across the Jinshui Bridge and came to the square in front of Fengtian Hall.
The officials who can still stand in the square outside Fengtian Palace at this moment are basically officials from the capital and local officials from the fifth rank and above.
Zhu Biao also got off his horse, and was led by Zhu Yuanzhang himself to continue walking forward.
The civil servants, military generals, and college professors on both sides also knelt down and worshiped:
"Wen Hongxin, the magistrate of Linqing Prefecture, comes to see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Tai Yongjie, a thousand households in Anton Guard, is here to see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Peng Xiangming, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs of Zhejiang Province, comes to see Your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Professor Shen Wen of Wanmin Medical College, see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
When walking through the Fengtian Palace Square and climbing the steps of the Fengtian Palace, the officials who can still stand on the steps of the Fengtian Palace at this moment "are basically officials of the fourth rank or above from the capital and local officials.
As Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao walked past, the civil servants and military generals on the steps also bowed down and said:
"Song Puhe, the magistrate of Qingzhou Prefecture, comes to see Your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
"Commander of the Pingshan Guards, Zhuang Anbang, is here to see your Majesty! Long live, long live, long live your Majesty!"
In the end, the officials who can enter the Fengtian Palace are basically civil servants, military generals, and noble marquises of the third rank or above from the capital and local officials.
There are also Yan Changqing, who bears the identity of the Shennong family of Nongsheng, as well as Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang led Zhu Biao through a group of civil and military officials, noble marquises, and paused slightly when passing a group of vassal princes and princes on the Nine Layers of Dan.
King Zhu Fang of Qin, King Zhu Fan of Jin, King Zhu Di of Yan, King Zhu Ji of Zhou, King Zhu Zhen of Chu, and King Zhu Bo of Qi also looked at their eldest brother Zhu Biao, with a flash of envy in their eyes, but they all congratulated sincerely:
"Congratulations, eldest brother, on succeeding to the throne as emperor!"
Zhu Biao also had a smile on his face and nodded slightly.
Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang led Zhu Biao to the empty Emperor's throne, then gently pushed Zhu Biao down to sit on the Emperor's throne, and then turned to look at the civil and military officials below.
The noble Marquis said in a solemn voice:
"From today onwards, Zhu Biao succeeds to the throne and is the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Yan Changqing, who was standing on the imperial steps of the Dan Palace, as well as Qin Wang Zhu Di, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes all bowed to the emperor Zhu Biao and said:
"See your majesty, long live your majesty! Long live! Long live your majesty!"
The six ministers, nine ministers and ten princes standing at the front below also led a group of civil and military officials and noble marquises to kneel three times and nine times to kowtow to the Dali Mountain to wish the emperor Zhu Biaoxing a happy new year!
"I will see you, Your Majesty!"
"Long live your Majesty! Long live! Long live your Majesty!"
The mighty sound of the mountains shouting "Long Live the Mountain" spread from the Fengtian Palace to the square outside, and from the Fengtian Palace Square to the Meridian Gate, Duanmen Chengtian Gate, Hongwu Gate, Zhengyang Gate, and even the entire Yingtian Mansion, and even The whole big tomorrow will fall!
At this point, Emperor Zhu Biao officially succeeded to the throne!
Zhu Biao, who was sitting on the emperor's throne, waved his hand and said gently but without losing his majesty:
"Everyone is safe!"
Yan Changqing, the King of Qin Zhu Di, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes and princes, as well as the six ministries, nine ministers and ten princes and other civil and military officials, noble marquises, all responded in unison:
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Then, Zhu Biao also issued five imperial edicts after he ascended the throne:
First, since the beginning of this year, the Ming Dynasty has changed to the Yuan Dynasty!
Second, the deceased Crown Princess Chang was posthumously named Queen Jingyi!
Third, the eldest son Zhu Xiongying was appointed as the crown prince!
Fourth, amnesty to the world!
Fifth, from now on, the Ming Dynasty’s New Year holidays will last from New Year’s Eve on New Year’s Eve to the seventh day of New Year’s Day!
As for other specific national governance policies, this will have to wait until the New Year's Day meeting after returning from the New Year holiday for discussion and decision-making.
Let’s not talk about Zhu Biao’s previous imperial edicts. Anyway, they have little to do with civil and military officials like them.
But Zhu Biao finally decided to extend the New Year's holiday from New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, which really made all the civil and military officials shed tears.
From New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, there is a full eight-day holiday!
When I worked under Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Papi, they didn’t get eight days of vacation in total throughout the year!
Now Zhu Biao has given them eight days off during the New Year holiday alone. How generous and benevolent this is!
Sure enough, their choice to support Zhu Biao ascension to the throne was correct!
Emperor Zhu Biao was indeed kind-hearted and considerate of his subjects.
They will definitely blow up Emperor Zhu Biao in the future!
Although Taishang Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang on the side knew that Zhu Biao was showing favor to civil and military officials and noble marquises to further win people's hearts.
But when he heard that Zhu Biao gave these officials so many days of vacation at once, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but frown.
However, he still said nothing and did not interfere with Zhu Biao's decision. .