Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2103, Zhengde Dynasty
After finishing the official business, Emperor Hongzhi also heaved a sigh of relief, as if he had completed his mission.

For Emperor Hongzhi, he inherited the Great Ming Dynasty from his father when he was only eighteen years old. He has always been conscientious and diligent, and he never dared to slack off.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, he reused virtuous ministers, got rid of many shortcomings left over from the Ming Xianzong period, reversed the corruption of the government, expelled traitors, worked diligently in government affairs, and worked hard to govern.

His father Ming Xianzong didn't like going to the early court for a long time. Emperor Hongzhi went to the morning court every day, and even called important ministers for a small meeting after the morning court, and sometimes held a late court in the afternoon.

I review a large number of memorials every day, and even have to review until late at night. I am very diligent, and it has been going on for decades, and I never dare to slack off.

The reason why he is so diligent is because he knows that the Great Ming country that he carries on his shoulders is related to the hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty.

He is a responsible emperor who loves the people like a son. He has been working hard to create a prosperous Ming Dynasty and run the Ming Empire, trying to make it prosperous and prosperous.

Only in the first ten years, although Emperor Hongzhi was very diligent and appointed many capable ministers, the situation in the Ming Dynasty did not change much.

Internally, land annexation is still becoming more and more serious, land conflicts are fierce, imperial taxation is collapsing day by day, treasury is empty, frontier defense is getting weaker and weaker, the military household system is extremely corrupt, and it has already been corrupted.

Externally, Tatars in the northern grassland went south to seize customs and plunder every year.

Faced with such a situation, although Emperor Hongzhi wanted to change it, he was still in this frame and could not jump out. Those civil servants had vested interests, and they would never allow the emperor to toss about wantonly. It was just an empty treasury. The amount made Emperor Hongzhi unable to do any major things.

Big things can't be done, and other small things, no matter how diligent and hard-working, there is still not much improvement in the Ming Dynasty, and it is still going downhill.

Until the emergence of Liu Jin, Liu Jin began to be reused, and Liu Jin was supported to carry out reforms in many aspects. The development of overseas colonization and capitalism also made the Ming Dynasty slowly move towards a different path.

During this process, he also fought wits with those traditional civil servants, conservatives, salt merchants, and grain merchants several times.

In the end, it slowly became the prosperous scene of Daming.

For Emperor Hongzhi, these forty long years were exhausting.

Every morning, every day's memorials, every day's major state affairs, for forty years as a day, there are only a handful of times when Emperor Hongzhi can really put down the state affairs and have a good rest.

Anyone can get tired!
Emperor Hongzhi was really tired.

Now that the country of Ming Dynasty was handed over to Zhu Houzhao, he relaxed, as if he had fulfilled his mission.

"Father, my son doesn't want to be emperor, I just want you to get well soon, Father."

Zhu Houzhao obviously didn't have the slightest excitement and joy to be the emperor now. Instead, he was crying like a child. He was about to run away, but at this moment he was crying like a child holding Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi lost his eyesight and didn't know what would happen to his body. He was really afraid of losing his father.

"Stupid child, people are born, old, sick and die, and the emperor will not do anything else."

"The country of Great Ming is now in your hands. From now on, you should be less stubborn and focus more on governing the country, and governing the country handed down from your ancestors well."

Emperor Hongzhi touched Zhu Houzhao's head, still very happy in his heart.

"Yes!"

Zhu Houzhao kept wiping away tears.

"Go, go, go and get busy."

"I'm tired!"

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand, motioning everyone to get busy and leave him alone.

When everyone heard this, they retreated one after another, and at the same time began to prepare for Zhu Houzhao's ascension to the throne.

The next day, the Golden Temple.

Under the witness of the ministers, the already invisible Emperor Hongzhi, with the help of the eunuch, personally put on Zhu Houzhao the golden silk-winged crown that symbolized the emperor's power, and at the same time handed over the jade seal to Zhu Houzhao.

This kind of succession is unique in all dynasties. Except for some courtiers who sought to usurp the throne and accepted the Zen throne, there has never been such a smooth change of power.

Finally, under the witness of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon chair step by step, and the officials worshiped the new emperor, and the ceremony was considered complete.

"Follow the heavens to carry the emperor; the edict says that starting from next year, Jianyuan Zhengde!"

The Zhengde Dynasty has begun!

Standing at the head of the group of officials, Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao on the dragon chair, and was filled with emotion in his heart.

Who would have thought that Emperor Hongzhi ended his reign in such a way. When he felt that he was not suitable to continue to be emperor, he decisively chose to pass the throne to Zhu Houzhao. This is also a very rare thing.

Originally, Liu Jin thought that he should be able to work in the hands of Emperor Hongzhi until he retired. Emperor Hongzhi has always been in good health. Since the removal of the intestinal abscess, he has taken good care of him and exercised.

Liu Jin felt that there was no problem for Hongzhi to live to be seventy or eighty years old. He even fell and lost his eyesight, and then directly chose to abdicate.

In history, Emperor Hongzhi died of illness in the [-]th year of Hongzhi, and Zhu Houzhao, who succeeded him, also died of illness in the [-]th year of Zhengde, adding up to only [-] years.

However, it has been [-] years since Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao are living well, history has changed a lot, a lot.

The new emperor has ascended the throne, and there are many things to be busy.

First of all, amnesty the world as before. Except for the heinous people, all the rest are pardoned. This is something that all dynasties will do.

The new emperor's amnesty to the world is also to extend favor to the people of the world, let everyone remember the kindness of the emperor, and let everyone see the benevolence of the emperor.

Then there is compliance. In previous dynasties, after the death of the old emperor, the new emperor named his biological mother the empress dowager or something.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi took the initiative to abdicate, it is natural that he must obey the title together. Emperor Hongzhi is naturally the Supreme Emperor, and Empress Zhang will become the Empress Dowager.

The next step is to confer the concubine Xia as the empress, and confer the eldest son of Empress Xia, Zhu Zaicheng, as the prince. This has been a tradition in the Ming Dynasty.

Under the eldest son system, only the sons born to the queen have the right to inherit. As for the sons born to other concubines, they cannot compete with the queen's son no matter what.

Unless the queen has no sons or all died young, then the inheritance is also in order of age, first the legitimate son, then the eldest son, such a system.

The prince Zhu Zaicheng, as the eldest son, has always been valued since he was a child.

Zhu Houzhao has more than 200 sons, but he has been valued since he was a child. Whether it is the grandfather of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao, or the ministers in the court, he is very concerned and concerned.

Because he is the future emperor of Ming Dynasty, the undisputed first heir, the other princes can't compete with him no matter what.

The education he received since he was a child was also in accordance with the prince's specifications. When he was very young, Emperor Hongzhi personally chose a good teacher for him to teach him.

Even Liu Jin has served as his teacher, and after teaching for a period of time, he can be regarded as his teacher.

Of course, his main teacher was not Liu Jin, but Wang Shouren. From the age of seven or eight to his teens, it was Wang Shouren who taught Zhu Zaicheng for a long period of time.

This was also recommended by Liu Jin to Emperor Hongzhi personally. Wang Shouren, a master, taught Zhu Zaicheng, and the students he taught would not be bad.

As for Liu Jin himself, he was half-baked, and would only copy some things from later generations. If he really wanted to teach and educate people, he would definitely not be able to, let alone the future emperor.

Zhu Zaicheng is now eighteen years old, and has even married a wife and had children. He looks nothing like Zhu Houzhao, but more like Queen Xia. He looks very good, handsome, with sword eyebrows and star eyes.

In addition, since he was a child, he was trained in front of the prince and the future emperor, which is extraordinary.

This point is also completely different from European monarchs. European monarchs and nobles pay attention to the purity of blood. It is a constant marriage between nobles, and in many cases even marriages between cousins.

The result is that European monarchs and nobles often have various genetic diseases, and their appearance is often horrible. Like the Habsburg family, they have inherited big chins, protruding jaws, and those with big tongues cannot speak. , the appearance is naturally grotesque, it is too horrible to look at.

In contrast, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty did not have these problems, because there had never been a tradition of marriage between close relatives, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were almost all good-looking.

When he arrived at Zhu Zaicheng, his appearance was even more handsome. He was connected with more than 200 brothers, all of whom were also very good-looking, and there were no genetic diseases in their bodies.

Liu Jin looked at Zhu Zaicheng again. His Royal Highness was handsome and handsome. In history, Zhu Houzhao had no sons or daughters, but now he has hundreds of children, more than 200 sons, and now he even has a lot of grandchildren.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as truly flourishing, and it is no longer withered as before. The disadvantage is how to arrange these sons in the future, which is a headache.

The advantage is that the old Zhu's family is more stable and has more princes. At least in any case, the Ming Dynasty will not fall into Zhu Houcong's hands.

Well, the current Zhu Houcong is estimated to be still in West Africa, worrying about the development of his country.

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(End of this chapter)