Li Zicheng chose to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in the Wuying Hall, which has been recorded in the annals of history. However, Wu Zongrui has always been confused about this. Emperors of the Ming Dynasty mostly chose to ascend the throne in the Huangji Hall. Occasionally, they chose the Zhongji Hall, and later they also chose to be in the Huangji Hall.

Among those who ascended the throne in the Wenhua Palace, no one chose to ascend the throne in the Wuying Palace and proclaim themselves emperor.

Li Zicheng probably did this because he wanted to be innovative and reflect the difference between the Dashun Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty.

The ceremony for Wu Zongrui to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor was held in Huangji Hall.

It is said that Zeng Yongzhong and others were planning to hold the ceremony of enthroning the throne and proclaiming emperor in the Wenhua Hall in accordance with the practice of the Ming Dynasty, but Gao Qiqian expressed clear opposition. From the time of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty to Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, they all enthroned in the Huangji Hall.

After Shenzong, Ming Guangzong, Ming Xi Zong and Emperor Chongzhen all chose to enthrone and proclaim themselves emperor in Wenhua Hall. What’s terrible is that Emperor Chongzhen was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor, if Wu Zongrui chooses to hold the ceremony of enthroning himself as emperor in the Wenhua Hall, the omen is not very good.

After Wu Zongrui heard Gao Qiqian's suggestion, he suddenly understood why Li Zicheng chose to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in the Wuying Hall. Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the Wenhua Hall, which led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng, who was born as a commoner, was still in his heart

With a slight inferiority complex, he would not choose to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in Huangji Palace, so it was logical to choose Wuying Palace.

It was the eighth day of the fifth lunar month in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Mao hour.

Zhongji Hall.

Wu Zongrui slowly walked towards the throne.

Cabinet chief minister Zeng Yongzhong, cabinet ministers Liao Wenru, Lu Faxuan, Shi Kefa and Hong Chengchou stood behind him.

After boarding the chariot and turning around to sit down, Zeng Yongzhong led everyone to kneel down.

"Long live the emperor, long live the emperor. I have Zeng Yongzhong report to the emperor. The auspicious time has been decided. All the civil and military ministers are waiting in the Huangji Palace..."

Wu Zongrui waved his hand, looked at Zeng Yongzhong and others and spoke.

"With the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, I think the Huangji Hall will be changed to the Taihe Hall, the Zhongji Hall will be changed to the Zhonghe Hall, and the Jinsheng Hall will be changed to the Baohe Hall. In addition, copper urns will be placed outside the three main halls, and in the copper urns

Enough water must be stored..."

Zeng Yongzhong, who was still kneeling on the ground, spoke immediately.

"I will obey the decree, and the emperor's decree will be announced to the world immediately..."

Zeng Yongzhong didn’t know what Wu Zongrui’s request to place copper vats for water outside the three main halls meant. In fact, it was very simple. During the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City encountered too many fires. The three main halls were burned down several times and rebuilt several times. Now,

Today's three main halls were rebuilt during the Tianqi period. If Wu Zongrui hadn't decisively and quickly sent an army into the capital, the Forbidden City would have been almost burned by Li Zicheng. By that time, Wu Zongrui, who ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, would have spent a lot of money.

Come to repair the Forbidden City.

Of course, it is definitely not enough to just rely on copper vats to hold water to prevent fires in the Three Halls and the Forbidden City. Wu Zongrui has already assigned the task to the Firearms Bureau in Dengzhou, asking them to create something similar to a fire hose.

To put out the fire, at the same time, some renovations are also needed between the three halls. The main purpose is to prevent fire.

The plaque of Huangji Hall is being slowly taken down. Wu Zongrui has just issued an order to change Huangji Hall to Taihe Hall. At this time, it is impossible to hang the plaque of Taihe Hall. Besides, this Taihe Hall,

Only Wu Zongrui could inscribe the plaques on the Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall, and no one else dared to write them casually.

Above Danbi, a table has been set up with an incense burner, where Wu Zongrui will burn incense to worship heaven and earth.

All civil and military officials were waiting outside the Meridian Gate.

Holding the lit incense in his hand, Wu Zongrui suddenly thought of his father Wu Shungui, everyone in the Wu family, and the Chen family.

Zeng Yongzhong, Liao Wenru, Liu Ning and others all proposed to bring Wu Zongrui's father and Chen Lingyan's parents to the capital. This suggestion was rejected by Wu Zongrui. He did not want to disturb the Wu family and Chen family. Perhaps many people thought that

After Wu Zongrui ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, he will definitely give the Wu family and Chen family enough glory and wealth. However, Wu Zongrui has no such idea. He still has a lot of things to do, especially in abolishing some of the systems left by the Ming Dynasty that have harmed the country and the people.

Sometimes, they will use iron fist measures and may even offend the Wu family and Chen family.

Putting three incense sticks in the incense burner, Wu Zongrui knelt down.

At this moment, there was only Wu Zongrui on Danbi, and the others all avoided it.

"God, I hope you can bless me and create an unprecedented Chinese prosperous age..."

At three o'clock in the morning, civil and military officials entered the Forbidden City through the Meridian Gate and arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony. At this time, the leader was already eleven-year-old Wu Fancheng, and behind Wu Fancheng was Wu Fanjue.

Wu Zongrui slowly walked up to the throne and when he turned around and sat down, everyone in the hall and outside the hall knelt down.

"Long live my emperor, long live long live..."

...

Zeng Yongzhong held the imperial edict in his hand, opened it, faced the civil and military officials, and read it loudly.

"In accordance with God's destiny, the emperor issued an edict: I obey God's will and have to wait for the unification. I am sincere and frightened, but I have tried my best to create a prosperous age..."

"Canonize Wu Fancheng as Crown Prince..."

"Canonize Chen Lingyan as the queen, Chen Yuhuan as the imperial concubine, Su Qiuye as the noble concubine, Xu Fo as the virtuous concubine, Liu Yin as the virtuous concubine..."

...

The ceremony for Wu Zongrui to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor was over in an hour.

This is Wu Zongrui's special request. The enthronement ceremony does not need to be so complicated. What's more, he is still sitting on the fire. The world is not at peace. The Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty is watching with eager eyes. Zhang Xianzhong, who is entrenched in Sichuan and Huguang, is ready to make a move. The Intelligence Department is investigating

, Zhang Xianzhong has made all preparations and will soon ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

As for Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places in the south, the generals stationed in various places are proud of their troops. Some plan to welcome the Ming prince stationed in the area to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, while others become the local emperor, Chongzhen.

The news that the emperor hanged himself and that Li Zicheng was completely annihilated by Denglai's new army had already reached these places.

During this period, the Intelligence Department detected a piece of news that aroused Wu Zongrui's great attention, and that was Zheng Zhilong, the commander-in-chief of Fujian. Zheng Zhilong was once the largest pirate along the coast of Fujian. During the Chongzhen period, he was recruited by Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Fujian at the time, and became a military commander in the Ming Dynasty.

, was later granted the title of Governor and Tongzhi, and concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of Fujian.

Although Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he always controlled the commercial transactions along the southeast coast. With his powerful navy, he accumulated huge wealth. The shipping terminal established by Wu Zongrui in Dengzhou was not as good as Guangdong in terms of geographical location.

It is similar to the coastal docks in Fujian, but Wu Zongrui has extraordinary foresight.

Wu Zongrui had heard many times that important officials of the East India Company talked about Zheng Zhilong, the commander-in-chief of Fujian.

The intelligence detected showed that after Zheng Zhilong learned the news that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself, he began to continuously strengthen his power at sea and on land, and planned to welcome Prince Zhu Ci, who was originally stationed in Changde Mansion, Huguang, but later escaped to Fujian, to become the emperor.

This Zhu Ci also had a certain reputation in history, that is, he was discussed as the third prince Zhu during the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong and his son Zheng Chenggong are very famous in history. Especially Zheng Chenggong, after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, he still led the navy to regain Taiwan and drove away the Dutch and Portuguese who occupied Taiwan.

Although the main combat forces of the Denglai New Army were mostly cavalry battalions, artillery battalions and infantry battalions, Wu Zongrui did not relax the construction of the navy at all. He knew very well that the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban and the later Qing Dynasty's isolation led to

With the rapid decline of the famous Chinese clans, building a powerful naval force would give Wu Zongrui enough confidence to fully extend his power.

When Wu Zongrui was heading towards the Wenhua Palace, Wu Fancheng, who had been canonized as the Crown Prince, quickly caught up with him.

"Fancheng, what's the matter?"

"Father, my father and my queen are still in Kunning Palace. They just sent eunuchs to report that they wanted to see my father."

Wu Zongrui patted his forehead lightly. He really did not expect that Chen Lingyan and others would take effect after the edict naming Chen Lingyan as queen was read out. Chen Lingyan also accepted the kneeling of everyone in the harem. At this time, Wu Zongrui had to go to the harem to see

He looked at the crowd and accepted congratulations from his family.

"I understand, Fan Cheng, follow me to Kunning Palace. I want to tell you something."

Wu Fancheng quickly saluted Wu Zongrui with his fists clasped.

"Fancheng, from now on it is not the time to go to court. You don't have to be so disciplined and restrained in front of me. From today on, you will live in Cining Palace. You are the crown prince and your status is unusual. Some people may

I will follow the trend and try my best to curry favor with you. I hope you can keep a clear head. You are still young and your main focus here is to study. If possible, I will let you read some memorials and think about how you should handle government affairs."

"Besides, after the world becomes peaceful, you have to go out and have a look. Don't stay in the palace all the time. That way you don't know anything about the outside world. If you lower your status and travel, you will learn a lot that you can't learn in books.

thing."

...

When Wu Zongrui and Wu Fancheng were still in the Qianqing sect, the eunuch had already reported it to Chen Lingyan.

Wu Zongrui and Wu Fancheng passed through the Qianqing Palace, and Chen Lingyan was already waiting with everyone.

Everyone saluted Wu Zongrui one by one, Wu Fancheng saluted Chen Lingyan and others, and then Wu Bingyue led Wu Fanxuan and others to salute Wu Fancheng.

This series of events made Wu Zongrui feel a little dizzy.

After everyone finished saluting, Wu Zongrui spoke.

"Don't forget what I said a few days ago. No matter what happens, we are all family and we have to be together. Those so-called rules are actually for outsiders to see. I just told Fan Cheng

As I said, it’s not the time to go to court, so you don’t need to be too obedient in front of me. Lingyan, you are already the queen, the mother of the world, and the management of the harem. Sometimes, the requirements don’t have to be so high..."
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