Chapter 414 413 Solar Eclipse

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, all the yamen in the Ming Dynasty held a seal opening ceremony, which represents the arrival of the forty years of Jiajing and all officials began to work normally again.

It was also on this day that Wu Shan, the Minister of Rites, submitted a memorial to the Tongzheng Envoy, to the Tongzheng Envoy, and for a moment, the court and the country were shocked again.

The reason why it caused such a great impact was because all the ministers of the court knew that the renovation project of King Jing's Mansion had not been completed, and the Minister of Rites made such a hurry to request the time to settle the vassal, which was a bit too damning.

But after all, in the second day of the fourth and fifth day of the lunar month, many officials who visited Yin Shidan, Zhang Juzheng and Wei Guangde's mansions came to Gao Gong's house. The most exaggerated one was Gao Gong's house. The people who visited the house had already formed a long queue outside the Gao Mansion, and their posture was not inferior to the cabinet's prime minister's house.

Because at this moment, a rumor spread in the capital, that is, everything that happened in the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan on the morning day.

Anyone who believes in this rumor knows that King Jing has become a past tense. Even though he may have been very close to that position in the past, Emperor Jiajing finally chose to follow the ancestral system.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, an imperial edict was transferred from the cabinet again, and it was quickly sent to Nanjing through the six departments. That was when Emperor Jiajing summoned the Nanjing Hanlin Academy to the head of the Imperial College, and the Imperial College Priest Qu Jingchun returned to Beijing to be promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Although Wei Guangde had known this from Zhang Juzheng before, Wei Guangde was also a little confused when analyzing the current court situation at this time.

Now a bunch of officials have been arranged in the position of the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Personnel, Yuan Wei, Yan Ne, Li Chunfang and Gao Gong, and now another Qu Jingchun has been added.

Gao Gong has been in a position for two months. Yuan Wei is said to have officially transferred from the Hanlin Academy to the Ministry of Rites. At that time, there will inevitably be conflicts with Gao Gong's position. There are also Wushan, who has served as the Minister of Rites for many years. So many ministers favored by Emperor Jiajing are crowded on this road. Don't you feel crowded?

The reason why Wei Guangde thought about this was because the three assistants of the cabinet, Lu Ben, had not yet arrived. It was said that his health was no longer good, but he was delayed by Emperor Jiajing's staying for retirement many times.

Everyone knows that Lu Ben has only one or two years left. Once he leaves, the cabinet may add a cabinet minister. After the position of crown prince has settled, many people began to pay attention to who the next person to join the cabinet will be.

Among the people who are most likely to enter the cabinet, perhaps only Wushan's mansion is indifferent in front of the door these days, because this person has a bad temper. If he goes to visit him for nothing, he may be rejected. As time goes by, there will naturally be fewer people who want to make good relationships with Wushan through visits.

Yuan Wei, Yan Ne and Li Chunfang's mansions began to become lively, and Gao Gong himself has always been sought after by Beijing officials.

At this time, although the mansion of Ge Lao Yan was roughly the same, anyone with discerning eyes could see that when King Jing was in a foregone conclusion, Ge Lao Yan's body could not last for a few years. Although no one dared to do something to push the wall at this time, the Yan faction secretly secretly connected.

With the turmoil, time passed by about ten days. The Aoshan Lantern Festival was over, and the Beijing officials began to calm down. It was time to devote themselves to official duties again.

With the auspicious time calculated by them on the Imperial Heavenly Prison, King Jing submitted the departure time and arrival time of the vassal in the form of a memorial. After obtaining permission from Emperor Jiajing, the Sili Prison approved the red hair to return the rituals to the Ministry of Rites. For a time, Wu Shan's work suddenly increased.

The lectures in Prince Yu's mansion have returned to normal, but the people in Prince Yu's mansion are all thinking about King Jing's travel.

The prince left Beijing and was in a vassal system. He could not leave after he went to Shi Jing to bid farewell to the emperor and his mother. There were many rules during this period, and King Yu, as his elder brother, and officials in Beijing, all had to participate.

"Brother Suqing."

"Suqing, you are here."

That afternoon, Wei Guangde, Yin Shidan and Zhang Ju were chatting in the room. When the curtain was opened, he saw Gao Gong stepping in. Everyone quickly got up and bowed.

"Everyone is sitting, I'll just come back to do some tolerances."

Gao Gong waved his hand and signaled everyone not to be polite. Then he asked again: "Is Your Highness here?"

"Your Highness felt a cold last night, and he was feeling a little uncomfortable and was resting."

Yin Shidan said a little embarrassedly.

Seeing that Yin Shidan and others looked bad, Gao Gong immediately understood that he knew the virtues of King Yu. When he was still in the palace, he was not surprised by absurd things.

"Then I will handle the handover with you. Take the time to explain the matter to King Yu, and you must not make any mistakes."

While speaking, Gao Gong took out a document from his arms and handed it to Yin Shidan and said, "This is the "Resignation of the Court" written by Secretary Wu. Although most of it was handled by officials of the Ministry of Rites, the day before King Jing left Beijing, King Jing and the princess went to the palace to say goodbye to Prince Yu's mansion after saying goodbye. His Highness would return to worship afterwards.

Then all the officials in Beijing will participate and go to the King Jing's Mansion to pay homage to King Jing. The next day, King Jing left Beijing, and all the civil and military officials in Beijing will wait for King Jing to say goodbye at the palace gate, and then stand at the bridge outside the left gate of Chang'an to stand in sequence, waiting for King Jing's car frame to pass."

"Ciqingyi" was decided by Wu Shan and the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Rites after checking the ritual ceremony of the princes of the previous dynasty. The entire procedure was based on the previous model and would not be added or deleted.

However, for the people in Prince Yu’s mansion, what they have to participate in is what he said.

Yin Shidan quickly read the document in his hand and then handed it to Wei Guangde. Wei Guangde took the document's hand to the right, so that Zhang Juzheng could watch it together.

Wei Guangde didn't know what others thought, but he was very curious about what kind of ceremony it was for the prince of the Ming Dynasty to leave Beijing and become a vassal.

The day before Yizhu, Gong went to the front of the imperial court to resign. The first time the inner officials set up the Muzi outside the Shangyu Palace. The King was wearing a coffin and a concubine from Donghua Gate to the Shangyu Palace. The official of the rituals led him to the front of the imperial court. The king and the concubine stood together. The king and the concubine both kowtowed for five and three kowtowed. The king and the concubine both kowtowed to the emperor and ordered them to give them to the king with fruit boxes and wine. The king kowtowed to drink. After the kowtowed, he went out to the Muzi and went to the mother's mother's mother. After the four bows, the concubine returned to the mansion first. King Jing went to the inner palace of Prince Yu to perform four bowtows. King Yu still went to the inner palace of Prince Jing to perform two bowtows. Each returned to the mansion. The civil and military officials each had auspicious clothes to go to the Jingyu Palace to perform four bowtows.

The next day, all civil and military officials had their own court service squads. King Jing wore a crown robes from Donghua Gate to the imperial throne of the Great Court, and went to the imperial throne of the Great Court, and carried five bows and three bows. He led the king from the east stairs to Chengtian Gate to Muci Yifu. After the king sacrificed the ritual of Chengtian Gate, the king took the carriage to the left and right gates of Chang'an to the palace to start his journey. He went out from Chaoyang Gate. The officials went to the left and right sides of the bridge and set up a waiter Wang Lu to pass and report back.

After reading the "Ciqiyi" drafted by Wu Shan, Wei Guangde had a general understanding of the procedure for the Ming Dynasty to leave Beijing and join the vassal. However, at this moment, he heard Yin Shidan asking Gao Gong in his ears: "Have the documents passed through the cabinet?"

"Of course, the cabinet that was sent to this morning has been sent to the palace now."

Gao Gongfuxu smiled and said, "I know what I am thinking. Master Yan maintained his usual style and acted impartially."

"Haha. By this time, it would be too late for him to do whatever he wants."

Yin Shidan smiled and said, "Let me go back and write a letter to Chen Yifu, so that he can be happy."

"Don't, he will know it if he reads the newspaper. If you really write a letter, it will be bad for Your Highness if it is spread."

Gao Gong hurriedly said something to stop him.

"Brother Suqing."

When Wei Guangde heard them say that the official documents were sent into the palace, he couldn't help but feel moved and shouted.

After Gao Gong, Yin Shidan and others turned their attention, Wei Guangde asked: "I see the "Cicha Yi" that was set by Shangshu Wu. The procedure is so complicated. Will Your Majesty have passed?"

Well, I won’t talk about the usual court meetings. Emperor Jiajing will issue an order in advance to exempt the three major court meetings of the dynasty, the Winter Solstice and the Wannian Holy Day. Only arranging a Duke to lead all the civil and military ceremonies to celebrate the court. The only thing that will appear in public is the palace examination every three years.

According to the "Civil Ceremony" listed by Wu Shan, he had to come forward two days before King Jing left Beijing, and he had to face King Jing and Princess Jing. Will Emperor Jiajing do it?

Although most court officials believed that Emperor Jiajing did not attend court and was unwilling to see the two kings, they were mainly like Emperor Zhengde of the previous dynasty, who were busy cultivating immortals all day long, which delayed the government affairs and family ties.

Emperor Zhengde was busy having fun, Emperor Jiajing was busy cultivating immortals, but Wei Guangde had different opinions.

In fact, this is also a common view from later generations. Emperor Jiajing was not lazy in politics, but because he was beaten up.

After seeing his two sons, the son died soon after. So what he believed in Tao Zhongwen's saying, the proverb of "the two dragons will not meet" has been deeply engraved into his bones.

Even though King Jing left Beijing and became a vassal, Emperor Jiajing might not have met him, otherwise he would have met King Jing on the morning of the day.

According to later generations, during the forty-five years of Emperor Jiajing's reign, except for the first few years, when the government affairs fell into the hands of Yang Tinghe and others, the government's power was firmly held in his hands in the following time and he had never been lost for a moment.

The reason for this is that although Emperor Jiajing was busy practicing Taoist secret techniques, he was never lazy every day and insisted on handling official documents and memorials transferred from the cabinet.

Emperor Jiajing never blindly followed the cabinet's plan, but made his own judgment. This is also the reason why he set up Zhilu after the cabinet was established.

For those who do not understand or do not know about the memorial, immediately summon the minister to inquire and then deal with it.

The decision-making power is always firmly in your hands, so that although the cabinet ministers can gain power, they dare not act recklessly.

"This is the system, Your Majesty should"

Gao Gong didn't care much at first, but then he understood the meaning of Wei Guangde's words.

Emperor Jiajing had already broken many rules. Even Emperor Zhengde, who was considered ridiculous at the time, did not have such a way as he did today, and had not attended court for more than ten years.

"You mean, your Majesty may dismiss it?"

Gao Gong's face changed drastically in an instant.

"I don't know, the Sacred Heart is unpredictable."

Wei Guangde shook his head and said, "But even if it is rejected, it will only be a major deletion process. It is possible that those who enter the palace will be deleted. After all, the Imperial Heaven Supervision has calculated the time. If it is really rejected directly, it will be a bad time if it is not said to be a good time."

In fact, Wei Guangde didn't say anything, that is, Emperor Jiajing might really resist seeing his two sons, worried that they would have an accident because of seeing him.

Gao Gong had already stood up at this time, rubbed his hands and walked around the house.

"Why didn't I expect it?"

Gao Gong walked back and forth, muttering in a low voice.

"Cheming Yi" passed his hand before handing it on. At that time, he felt that what Wu Shan did was stable and did everything according to the ritual system. There would definitely be no mistakes, but he forgot that he is not an emperor who plays according to common sense.

Although he abides by the ancestral system when choosing a crown prince, it is just a matter of a prince being a vassal. Even if Emperor Jiajing really violates the system of the previous dynasty, now, except for some people in the dynasty, most of the other people are eager for King Jing to leave early, so naturally there will be no more trouble.

Thinking of this, Gao Gong stood still and said to the three of them: "I am careless about this matter. If the official document is really rejected by Your Majesty, then I will propose to Secretary Wu to directly delete the ceremony of King Jing's entry into the palace, and replace it with King Jing and the princess to worship the emperor from afar and then say goodbye, and all officials will wait."

Not only did Emperor Jiajing not want to meet them, but in the past, even the female officials and relatives in the palace were cancelled. However, Gao Gong was still a little hesitant when he talked about this place. After all, Prince Jing's mother, Concubine Lu Jing, was still there, and it seemed a bit unreasonable not to arrange for mother and son to meet.

“That’s right.”

Wei Guangde said, "I have seen the memorials reviewed by His Majesty in Yan's Mansion before, and I see that many of them have red letters changed."

"Yes, some of the emperor thinks are inappropriate and will modify the pen."

Although most of the people who hold the pen wrote these changes were written by eunuchs of the Silijian, but they were all modified according to the intentions of Emperor Jiajing. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an imperial pen.

In the past, Wei Guangde saw memorials of returning when he visited Yan's mansion. According to Wei Guangde's opinion at the time, some of these revisions were insignificant words, and it doesn't matter whether they should be moved or not.

However, Emperor Jiajing still corrected the memorials. Only then did Wei Guangde think of a possibility, which was to remind all officials and cabinet ministers that I had read your memorials, so don’t try to fool me.

Of course, Wei Guangde never said anything about his thoughts. As for whether others think so, Wei Guangde was too lazy to ask.

However, what Wei Guangde, Gao Gong and others did not expect was that the instructions of "Ci Chaoyi" had not yet been released, and only two days later, something major happened again.

On February 7, 40th year of Jiajing, the red sun was hanging high that day, and the sky was clear and white clouds were floating by. Although it was still a little cold, it was also a rare sunny day.

At the third hour of Si, the sky suddenly became darker, as if it was about to enter night, and stars could be seen everywhere in the sky.

"eclipse."

When the strange phenomenon in the sky occurred, Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng shouted at the same time.

People chatting in the house, including King Yu, ran out of the house and looked up at the dark sky. The red sun should have been hanging high, but only half of it was left.

"Damn the Imperial Heaven Prison."

Seeing such a scene, King Yu couldn't help but curse.

In the Ming system, whenever the sun and lunar eclipse are encountered, the sun and the lunar eclipse will be monitored first by the Imperial Day to calculate the date of occurrence and duration of the sun and lunar eclipse.

However, this solar eclipse was not calculated by the Imperial Heavenly Prison
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