Women's clothing in the Ming Dynasty

March [-]th, Forbidden City.

There was no sound in the cabinet, except for the old man who made an exception and called several important officials in the court.Emperor Zhengde had just passed away. At this time, the whole city of Beijing was under martial law, and the air seemed to be stagnant.

Wang Qiong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has a rather irritable temper. Seeing Yang Tinghe, Mao Ji and other elders standing in front of him without changing their expressions, he couldn't help being upset.But he couldn't go up to ask, so he had to grab his old friend Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, and asked quietly: "Master Mao, what do you think will happen next? Have you decided?" Unfortunately, Wang Qiong Mr. Wang had served in the Ministry of War for many years before, and he was used to being bold and bold on weekdays. His self-proclaimed whisper was very obvious in this quiet room, and almost everyone's eyes were focused on the two of them.

Mao Cheng secretly groaned, Wang Qiong wanted to kill him!So he shook his head again and again, expressing that he didn't know.

Mr. Mao Ji, Mao Ge, once supervised the Ministry of Rites, and he was the most upright and strict on weekdays. Seeing that the two of them did not follow the rules, he wanted to reprimand them, but was interrupted by someone who came.

The eunuch Gu Dayong, the supervisor of ceremonies, came hurriedly. When he saw the ministers, he bowed first, and the ministers hurriedly asked, "How is it? What did the Empress Dowager say?"

Gu Dayong cleared his throat: "The Empress Dowager has an order. Your Majesty said before she died that the world is a serious matter, and she should be interrogated and dealt with by the cabinet ministers. What she means is, let everyone make up their minds."

"This, this..." The courtiers looked at me, I looked at you, and finally they all looked at the person standing in the front, who was the real helm of Daming—Yang Tinghe, the richest man in the cabinet.

Yang Tinghe seemed to be well prepared, and calmly took out a thin notebook from his sleeve, on which were written "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" in large characters.He ignored the strange gazes of others, and directly opened the emperor's ancestral instructions, and said lightly: "From the Tai and Zu Ling, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother will die. Although the Emperor Daxing did not leave behind a prince, your majesty still has a good reputation." Younger brother, Zhu Houcong, the eldest son of King Xingxian, shall be appointed according to the order."

The ministers thought to themselves, it seems that this has been prepared for a long time, maybe the Queen Mother also participated in it.That's all, anyway, the establishment of the emperor is indeed in line with the ancestral system, left and right is their old Zhu's business, so let's take care of it, so they all agreed.

Yang Tinghe immediately asked Gu Dayong to convey the opinions of the courtiers to the Queen Mother. After the death of Emperor Zhengde, Queen Mother Zhang could nominally act as the emperor's power in a special capacity, so she immediately issued a decree and read it at Zuoshunmen to officially establish Zhu Houcong as emperor.

As soon as this decree came out, all officials in the court, even treacherous ministers, breathed a sigh of relief.The emperor was uncertain, and they didn't even have room to flirt, especially when they learned that the new emperor was less than 15 years old. He grew up in the countryside of Anlu, and he was a bumpkin who had never seen the world.

To make up your mind is to discuss how to welcome the new king.Gu Dayong controlled the West Factory all the year round, and was a close confidant of the late emperor, so he naturally overwhelmed the others and grabbed a seat as an imperial envoy.Empress Dowager Zhang kept silent, and stuffed her younger brother Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling in as well. The Minister of Rites, Mao Cheng, saw that this would not work. With Gu Dayong and Zhang Heling, two traitors, I am afraid that another Zhengde will be produced. emperor.So he went to find the chief assistant Yang Tinghe in person, Yang Tinghe thought for a moment, and knocked on the door of his old friend Liang Chu Liangge.

At the time of the national funeral, Liang's family was also drafting drafts for the whole house. Liang Chu went to the hall door to greet him in person. Seeing Yang Tinghe smiled and said, "Why does Jiefu have time to come to my place? But you want to bring me bacon again?"

Yang Tinghe also laughed. They were both Scholars in Chenghua for 14 years. Back then, they entered the Imperial Academy together. One was editing and the other was reviewing. They cherished each other.He is from Sichuan, and his parents were always worried about sending bacon over. He didn't like to eat it, so he sent it to Liang Chu's house every day, which made Liang Chu smell like bacon, and for no reason got the title of "bacon man".

In the blink of an eye, it has been 40 years. Yang Tinghe felt emotional in his heart, and then joked: "If Uncle Hou is greedy, Shen'er just brought me some, and I will send it to you tomorrow."

"Well, you Yang Jiefu, you've been making trouble for a long time because I'm showing off my son!" Liang Chu scolded with a smile. All sour.

Yang Tinghe raised the corners of his mouth proudly: "It's a fluke, that brat is really lucky." Then he lowered his face and sighed softly: "It's a pity, why doesn't Your Majesty have a good son."

Hearing what he said, Liang Chu also felt sour. No matter how the Emperor Zhengde messed around, he was still relatively generous to these veterans, and they were the ones who watched them grow up.To be disrespectful, in Liang Chu's mind, he is not much different from his nephew.

"Tell me, what can I do?" Liang Chu said seriously.

Yang Tinghe bowed respectfully, "I implore Shuhou to serve as an imperial envoy, go to Anlu to welcome the emperor, and help His Majesty's relatives and virtuous ministers, keep away from villains, so as to protect our Daming community." He was also quite guilty in his heart, and his old friend was 71 years old this year Yes, as early as the 14th year of Zhengde, it was clearly established that the first-rank official was awarded the honor of Dr. Guanglu and Zuo Zhuguo after nine years.If it wasn't for the sudden death of the first emperor, I'm afraid he would have returned home to enjoy the blessings long ago, but now it is really embarrassing for him to rush to thousands of miles away.

Just when Yang Tinghe was feeling uneasy, a pair of generous and warm hands lifted him up, only to hear Liang Chu laughing on the opposite side: "I will be loyal to the country, and I will never give up even if I die. I will stick to my wish and dare not ask for it."

Yang Tinghe just felt relieved.

Let's talk about Xingwangfu.Ever since Li Chengfeng promised Zhu Houcong that little brat that he would stay by his side as if he had taken the wrong medicine that day, Li Chengfeng wanted to slap himself from time to time.

Let you owe!Let you owe!

Others don't know who he is, don't you know!In the future, when someone becomes the emperor, if I get you into the palace as an offering, will you pretend to be a woman for the rest of your life!

But every time he regrets wanting to say goodbye to Zhu Houcong, he can't help but think of the young boy's thin back that day in the sleeping mausoleum, and always swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Zhu Houcong didn't know anything about this, he was satisfied because of the other party's attitude before.From this point of view, he even made his own decisions and rebuilt the Qingjiang Temple for Li Chengfeng after the Hundred Days Sacrifice of King Xingxian!

Li Chengfeng was about to kneel to him when he heard the news, and hurriedly went to find the young prince who had just succeeded to the throne.

At this time, Zhu Houcong was listening to the lecture by Shi Yuan Zonggao, the governor of the palace, in the study, and Lu Bing sat next to him to accompany him.During this period of time, Lu Bing has also grown up a lot, at least he is not as fleshy as before, but during the period of changing his voice, Chun Yin sneered at him a few times, and he rarely spoke.

While in class, I heard Huang Jin's voice from outside: "Master Jinghua, the prince is studying with Master Yuan, why don't you wait here for a while."

Li Chengfeng didn't expect to come at such an untimely time, so he said goodbye and turned around to leave.

Zhu Houcong's eyes lit up when he heard Li Chengfeng's voice in the room.Even little Lu Bing looked excited. Master Yuan's lectures were so boring that he almost dozed off, but Master Jinghua was much more interesting and good-looking. I still prefer to be with him.

Looking into the eyes of the two, Yuan Zonggao snorted coldly in his heart, starting from Emperor Chenghua, several emperors and princes of the Ming Dynasty highly respected Taoism, and even took the so-called elixir day and night in the late Hongzhi period, and finally died in his prime.Instead of learning the lesson, the old prince has been cultivating Taoism in his mansion, and even the princess has been talking a little bit lately.As the long history of the palace, he has the obligation to teach the new king, and today he will expose the true colors of these liars!

So he cleared his throat and said to the outside: "It's okay, let her in."

Yuan Zonggao assisted the two princes and was highly respected in the mansion. Huang Jin dared not refuse to listen, so he brought Li Chengfeng in.

He walked in with a dazed face, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the old man in the head with a frosty face, and Zhu Houcong and Lu Bing underneath looked nervous.Li Chengfeng realized that this was probably looking for trouble, so he hurriedly bowed: "I don't know that the prince is in class, and I have delayed my lord's business, so I apologize here first."

It has to be said that his appearance of immortality and bones is really deceptive. Seeing that he has a good attitude, Yuan Zonggao's anger extinguished a little, but he still said in a bad mood: "It's okay, just what the old man said It has something to do with the Taoist priest, why don't you listen to it here and answer it by the way."

Knowing that this matter might not be kind, he gave Zhu Houcong a comforting look, Li Chengfeng did not show any timidity, and nodded generously: "If that's the case, then please ask my lord."

"I don't know if Chang has ever heard the words 'Shang Jun left behind etiquette and righteousness, abandoned benevolence and kindness, and focused on making progress. When he was two years old, Qin and customs were increasingly defeated...'."

Li Chengfeng felt relieved, this happened to be their extracurricular reading in high school, he nodded and said: "It's the content in Jia Gong's "Policies for Public Security"."

Yuan Zonggao nodded: "That's right, Mr. Jia is an upright talent and a role model for our generation, but in the end he ended up as a 'poor Ye Banxu, who doesn't ask the common people and asks ghosts and gods'. It's sad that he can't use it for half his life."

Li Chengfeng secretly thought it was funny, he was waiting for him here, so he said seriously: "Return to the adults, but the poor think that Mr. Jia's words are wrong."

"Ah?" Yuan Zonggao was stunned. He originally thought that he would use Emperor Hanwen's superstition to satirize the other party's pretense, but he didn't expect that this daring female Taoist priest even judged Jia Gong.

Li Chengfeng didn't care about him, and continued to talk eloquently: "According to Jia Gong's theory, the collapse of Qin's rituals and music began with the reform of the Shang monarch, so why did the Han Dynasty inherit the Qin system and follow the Qin law? Could it be that they collapsed on their own?" Own?"

"What's more, Duke Jia said that in order to make the world stable, it is best to establish more vassal states and reduce their power. If the power is weak, it is easy to use morality to instruct them, and the country is small and there will be no evil thoughts of rebellion. I don't know' A single spark can start a prairie fire' If it is not solved fundamentally, it will be like the chaos of King Ning, no matter how small the force is at the beginning, as long as the opportunity is seized, it will become a big deal."

Yuan Zonggao was trembling with anger, and just about to reprimand him for his nonsense, he heard Zhu Houcong thinking from the side: "Then how to solve it fundamentally?"

Looking into his eyes, Li Chengfeng looked at him and said seriously: "This is up to you, my lord, to find a way."

"Nonsense!" Yuan Zonggao scolded angrily: "As a feudal lord, the lord only needs to do his part and be loyal to the emperor. He has no idea what to do!"

Li Chengfeng smiled, nonchalantly: "Maybe there is?" Thinking about it, the time is almost up...

Yuan Zonggao was stunned, he never expected that this female Taoist priest would be so rebellious, is she crazy? Just ordered someone to throw her out.He heard the anxious shouts of the guards from outside the house.

"Report to the prince, the imperial court hastened six hundred miles! The imperial decree has arrived!"

Li Chengfeng looked unpredictable: "Look, this is coming."

The author has something to say: 1. Although Mao Ji and Mao Cheng have similar names, they are not related

Mao Ji used to be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of Rites. He was a bachelor of the Wuying Temple, that is, the elder of the cabinet.

Mao Cheng is the current Minister of Rites.

I don’t know if you have read Pu Songling’s "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" which contains a short story called "Sisters Are Easy to Marry". Ji is poor and unwilling to marry.Later, due to helplessness, the parents let the younger sister marry instead of the older sister. Unexpectedly, not long after the marriage, Mao Ji won the first prize and had a bright future. The eldest daughter of the Zhang family regretted it.The prototype in it is Mao Ji, but in fact this is just a novel, and Mao Ji's wife is surnamed Guan.

2. Poor night and half empty front table, don't ask the common people and ask ghosts and gods, from Li Shangyin's "Jia Sheng", mocking Han Wendi for calling Jia Yi over in the middle of the night, but only asking about ghosts and gods, Jia Yi's "On the Passing of Qin" when I was in high school There are textbooks, but I don’t know if they have been deleted in the textbook reform.The comments on Jia Yi in the article are really necessary for the plot, and I personally admire his literary talents and thoughts very much.

3. I have talked so much before, but there is one thing that everyone must know, that is, the throne of Zhu Houcong is reasonable and legal. According to the order of the emperor and ancestors, he can only be him, because his father Xingxian Wang is the fourth child. The third child is Emperor Hongzhi, and the eldest child died early.Although there are still a few uncles left, there is no reason for the younger generation to pass on the throne to the elders.According to historical records, when Zhengde was seriously ill at that time, Empress Dowager Zhang issued a decree to reward Zhu Houcong immediately, so there was no throne given by charity.