How did you, a prisoner on death row, become an important weapon of the country? Yecheng Gao Weiming

The so-called court meeting means that the Ming Emperor held a morning meeting with all the officials from the capital.

This is the same as modern migrant workers who get up early and rush to the company every day, passively accepting the blood infusion from their leaders.

Since the founding of the country by Hongwu and Zhu Yuanzhang, the court meeting system has been formulated.

Generally divided into three types.

Dachao, Shuowangchao, Changchao.

The Great Court is held on the first day of the first lunar month, the Winter Solstice, and the Wanshou Festival. It is the day when civil and military officials pay homage to the emperor. It is grand in scale and filled with loud gongs and drums.

The Shuo Wang Dynasty is held on the first and fifteenth day of each month, which is similar to the Great Dynasty Meeting. It is also a ceremony for officials to praise the emperor without discussing specific government affairs.

As for the regular court, it is a daily practice.

All officials in Kyoto need to get up at three in the morning, rush outside the Meridian Gate, wait for the bell above the Meridian Gate to ring, and then walk into the square in front of the Jinluan Hall to wait.

At about four or five o'clock, the emperor will appear in the Jinluan Palace and summon the officials to discuss matters.

At about seven or eight o'clock, after the court meeting, all the officials thanked and left, returning home to sleep in their cages or have some breakfast.

At nine o'clock, they all show up at their respective yamen and start their day's work.

I work until three or four in the afternoon and then go home to sleep and continue the process for the next day.

Therefore, being an official in the capital is similar to the situation of a modern worker.

The person who can be tormented by this morning meeting has a nervous breakdown.

This phenomenon was most serious during the Hongwu and Yongle years.

One is Zhu Yuanzhang and the other is Zhu Di. The father and son are particularly fond of court meetings and almost never miss them.

The emperor is already here, how could all the officials not come, so I have to get up early every day.

But gradually, with the subsequent emperors, this diligent system began to fall into disuse.

The happiest people were the officials of Jiajing and Wanli dynasties.

These two emperors almost never went to court, which made the employees below him completely relieved.

Therefore, by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, no one attended the court meetings anymore.

After all, for the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the two grandfathers Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the emperor was just a decoration and mascot in the eyes of all officials.

With or without you, Ming Dynasty can function normally.

This is especially true after the implementation of the cabinet system.

Otherwise, Jiajing and Wanli would not be able to live happily for a lifetime, and the country would never have any major problems.

But when the Tianqi Dynasty came, the young emperor Zhu Youxiao felt that this was not possible.

Without the court meeting, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party were tossing each other, falling in love and killing each other, and the Zhu family was in a state of chaos.

He decreed to restart the court system and forced all officials to participate.

This is a big pain for these Kyoto officials. Although they complain, they dare not not come.

Otherwise Jin Yiwei and Dongchang Fanzi can drag you off the bed and drag you all the way outside the Huangji Palace.

It's not that such scandals have never happened before.

There was once a minister of the Ministry of Justice who showed up wearing only obscene clothes and was beaten on the spot.

Therefore, during the Tianqi Dynasty, despite the country's internal and external troubles and the little emperor's playfulness and absurdity, the court system was finally implemented.

No gossip.

After Li Xin and the officials waited for about half an hour, the bell on the Meridian Gate rang.

The doors on both sides were opened. Civil servants walked to the left and military attachés to the right. They filed in one after another under strict inspection.

Li Xin, on the other hand, was led by a young eunuch and followed smoothly.

Everyone came to the square in front of Huangji Palace, lined up according to rank, and continued to wait.

When the little emperor Zhu Youxiao walked into the Jinluan Hall surrounded by the guard of honor, it meant that the court meeting had officially begun.

After the one prayer and three kowtows, the discussion phase begins.

But you should know that ordinary officials are still not qualified to enter the hall to meet the emperor.

After all, the main hall is such a big place and cannot accommodate so many officials.

Only high-ranking officials of the third rank or above are allowed to enter the palace to perform affairs.

As for the others, they can only wait in front of the temple.

If there is something important, you need to cough lightly and walk out of the queue, kneel on the ground and shout out the content of the performance.

If the voice was lowered, the emperor sitting inside would not be able to hear clearly.

After shouting for a long time, the emperor waved his hand impatiently to ask him to step down, and then wrote a report and submitted it.

Therefore, for low-ranking officials, there are very few discussions at the court meeting. Most of them are trivial matters such as officials from other places coming to the capital to express gratitude and retired officials saying goodbye to His Majesty.

If the emperor wants to see you, he will allow you to go into the main hall and kneel down. If he doesn't want to see you, he can kowtow and leave.

It was in this situation that Li Xin quietly waited for Zhu Youxiao's summons.

Not only him, but all the officials below the third rank stood bowed, thinking about their own affairs, waiting for the end of the court meeting.

I don’t know how long it took, when the sun slowly rose.

The important things must have been discussed in the main hall, when finally a eunuch came out and shouted loudly.

"His Majesty has a decree to summon... the heirs of the Feng family in Qingxi Village, Wuxia Mountain, and to pay homage to the palace..."

boom!

Everyone was shocked.

What the hell?

Li Xin?

Everyone suddenly raised their heads with shock on their faces.

The champion Li Xin is not dead?

Did we hear wrongly or are we hallucinating?

The eunuch then shouted again, and everyone felt relieved.

To the north nose!

It turns out to be Feng Lixin.

There was an extra seal, which almost scared us to death.

Afterwards, everyone subconsciously looked at the guy in civilian clothes at the end of the team.

It's him?

It turns out that he is a descendant of the Feng family.

The Feng family has successively served as the Taibao of Guanshan.

What the hell.

Unexpectedly, this person was actually summoned by the young emperor to build the imperial mausoleum.

But think about it.

The late emperor Zhu Changluo has been lying in the imperial mausoleum for almost two years and has not been completely buried yet.

This is very embarrassing.

Because Zhu Changluo only served as emperor for a month and died too suddenly, there was no time to build his imperial mausoleum.

In a hurry, they could only temporarily bury it in Jingtai Wali.

Where is Jingtaiwa?

It is the imperial mausoleum built for the former Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu.

It is a pity that after Zhu Qizhen, the war god of the Ming Dynasty, regained the throne, he immediately ordered the Jingtai Mausoleum to be abandoned.

No matter how fucking good you are, you are worthy of lying in the same place as me.

Jingtai Mausoleum became an abandoned mausoleum, and it was not until Zhu Changluo came to visit it after his death that it finally had an owner.

It's a pity that this release only lasted two years. I didn't expect that today, the little emperor would finally build a mausoleum for his father?

Just this repair, I don’t know how much silver it will cost.

Everyone had different thoughts as they watched the commoner named Feng Lixin slowly walk towards the high platform.

At this moment, the sun rises, and the square in front of the temple is bright.

When Feng Lixin walked past everyone, everyone took a breath of air after seeing his face clearly.

This person……

So damn ugly!

I have never seen such an ugly person.

Triangular eyes, flat nose, thin lips, and a smooth pointed chin.

It's like a poisonous snake probing its head, constantly moving.

What idiom is used to describe someone extremely ugly?

Correct!

The snake head, rat eyes, sharp mouth and monkey cheeks are really unsightly.

Everyone glanced at it and lowered their heads in disgust.

Only one person, after Li Xin walked past him, looked at his back with a look of horror on his face.

That man was Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji, the biological father of the current queen Zhang Yan.

There was a loud bang in Zhang Guoji's mind, and he thought of someone inexplicably.

The guy he knew all too well, the man they had known each other for decades.

He would never admit the other person's back.

"Impossible... absolutely impossible!"

Zhang Guoji unexpectedly let out a low voice and trembled all over.

"What's impossible? Zhang Guozhang?"

Xinwang Zhu Youjian, who was standing next to him, asked curiously when he saw this.

"No, it's okay!"

Zhang Guoji quickly lowered his head and explained in a low voice.

"His Royal Highness King Xin, it's okay! I didn't sleep well last night. I woke up in a hurry in the morning. I seemed to have forgotten to cover my concubine when I left. I was afraid that the servants would see me naked. If I was taken advantage of again, it would not be good. ”

Zhu Youjian:......

You're a fucking talent too.

His Royal Highness King Xin smiled and did not ask any more questions. Instead, he raised his head and looked at Feng Lixin's back with a thoughtful look on his face.

Zhang Guoji was relieved when he saw this, but his heart was shaking so much that he couldn't confirm whether it was because his eyesight was dazzled or because he was thinking too much.

How could that person not be dead?

While he was stunned, Li Xin had already walked into the hall under the leadership of the eunuch.

All the officials of rank three and above turned their heads to look.

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the nine-step high platform, and Wei Zhongxian, who was standing next to him, also looked up curiously.

Just this look...