Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 358 Respectful Letting the Emperor Be Equal
Among civil and military ministers, there are many old faces, and there are also many new faces.

After seeing each other one by one, Zhu Qizhen, who had been cold for a long time, was completely hopeless.

In less than two years, all important positions have been replaced by Zhu Qiyu's people.

At the same time that Zhu Qizhen met with the civil and military ministers, Zhu Qiyu also met Jingyuan uncle Wang Ji, Baoding uncle Liang Pang, and deputy commander Fang Ying one by one.

Wang Ji, Liang Pang, and Fang Ying finally met the most absurd and incomprehensible emperor since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Qiyu didn't talk about nonsensical things, and with just a few words, he fully affirmed the contributions of the three people, especially the contribution to quelling the Miao chaos.

Seeing that the emperor made it clear that he would personally take full responsibility for the defeat in Pingmiaoshi's battle, the three of them were completely relieved.

After everyone has worshiped the Supreme Emperor, they will enter the next process.

The two brothers Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen walked up to the high altar hand in hand.

Zhu Qiyu ordered people to build a high platform on both sides of the road outside Xizhimen, one on the left and one on the right.One is Jingguan, on which the captured Oala head was built, and Emperor Zhao Jingtai made great efforts to turn the tide.One is an altar, which is used to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers who were buried by the Supreme Emperor.

Those who were also put on the altar were Ye Xian.Boyan Timur was also invited to the altar to watch the ceremony.

Standing on the high platform, looking at the rows of inscriptions and tablets, and then looking at the piles of bones on the Jingguan platform opposite, Zhu Qizhen was even more frightened.

Although Zhu Qizhen never cared about the innocent soldiers who died in battle, even the British Duke Zhang Fu, in Zhu Qizhen's heart, he was just an immortal who could only kneel in front of Wang Zhen and bow his head to confess his guilt.

But the atmosphere in front of him is set in place, and a guilty conscience is a guilty conscience after all.No matter how heartless he was, Zhu Qizhen was still sweating profusely at this moment.

Zhu Qiyu didn't speak out to criticize, but dressed in the clothes of a prince, holding the jade seal in his hand, came to the Supreme Emperor, and knelt down to ask the emperor to return.

Although Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qiyu, and all civil and military officials knew that the emperor could not abdicate, let alone restore the emperor, but three resignations and three concessions still had to go through the motions.

The two brothers Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen performed very hard.

Zhu Qiyu tearfully begged his elder brother to restore the throne, and persisted again and again.

This time Zhu Qizhen also knelt down and resolutely gave in.

The number of times the two resigned quickly exceeded three times, and the ministers had to stand up again to persuade them.

King Min and King Dongwu represented the clans; Wang Ji and Wang Wen represented civil servants; Duke Wei and Duke An represented the nobles; they knelt down and shouted: "The position of heaven has been determined, please don't give way."

Civil and military officials also knelt down and shouted together.

Zhu Qizhen also stood up and announced in front of all civil and military officials: "I am ashamed of the country, I should have demoted myself to a commoner, and went to Fengyang to guard the spirit of my ancestors.

However, the emperor insisted on not allowing it, and it is really difficult for me to disobey.

However, I am guilty, so I have to make an explanation to my subjects all over the world.

Therefore, today, the crime has been issued here, and I will retire as a courteous emperor, and I will live in Nangong and meditate.

In the future, you should assist the emperor with all your heart, and achieve a prosperous and prosperous China as soon as possible, so I will not be shaken. "

As soon as Zhu Qizhen's words fell, several important ministers shouted together: "Your Majesty is holy, long live, long live, long live!"

All civil and military officials could only follow suit.

Then the tens of thousands of soldiers present also shouted long live in unison.

Its momentum is deafening and deafening, making people shaken and unable to control themselves.

The main reason is that the deterrent force of the army of tens of thousands of emperors is too strong. Even though there are still many civil and military officials who are dissatisfied with the emperor's demotion, the general trend is irreversible.

Facing the shouts like a tsunami, no one could bear the huge pressure and stood up to fight the emperor.

Things went much smoother than expected.

After Zhu Qizhen personally announced his demotion, Hu Wei stood up and read out the imperial edict of the Supreme Emperor.

Ordinarily, the edict should be read out by Yu Shiyue, Minister of Rites, or Chen Xun, a scholar of Wuyingdian University.

But Zhu Qiyu personally appointed Hu Wei because he was the only surviving of the five assistant ministers left by Xuanzong to Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen's ruling career began with Hu Wei's assistant government and ended with Hu Wei's reading of the imperial edict, which can be regarded as a beginning and an end.

Hu Wei himself had mixed feelings in his heart, and read out the imperial edict word by word.The imperial edict written by Zhu Qizhen himself clearly declared to the world that he would descend to the emperor of Gongrang, and his younger brother Zhu Qiyu would inherit the ancestral temple and rule the country.

At this point, the titles of monarchs and ministers have been formally determined.

Strictly speaking according to etiquette, the Supreme Emperor is greater than the Emperor, and the Emperor is greater than the Gongrang Emperor.

When we meet again in the future, it should be Zhu Qizhen who saluted Zhu Qiyu.

After the edict was read, Zhu Qizhen had to kneel down and salute Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu is not stupid, Zhu Qizhen is going to put me on the fire.If I really accepted Zhu Qizhen's kneeling and worshiping for granted, what would the common people think of me that day.

So Zhu Qiyu knelt faster than Zhu Qizhen, and insisted that he should still kneel and worship his brother in the future, and made it a rule.

The two debated for a while, before Zhu Qiyu reluctantly reached a consensus with his brother, stood up and announced to the civil and military officials:
"According to the law of etiquette, it should be appropriate for me to kneel down to worship elder brother, but elder brother insisted on it, thinking that meeting each other with respect is the director's way.

Therefore, in the future etiquette, my brother and I will be equal.

My eldest brother and I are like one flesh and blood, so from now on, we should also worship together, and we must not be neglected. "

What Zhu Qiyu meant was that the etiquette of the officials to the two emperors was exactly the same, which everyone could accept.

The ministers of the Emperor's Faction didn't have any opinions in their hearts. The two saints stand side by side and treat each other as equals, which is already the best result that can be obtained.

Under the auspices of Chen Xun, Yu Shiyue, and Hu Wei, the necessary procedures were completed.

Next, is to offer prisoners.

For civil and military officials, the prisoner presenting ceremony is much more relaxed and pleasant than the abdication ceremony.

At that time, the emperor and the emperor Gongrang sat side by side, with all the civil and military officials lined up on both sides.Hu Wei, Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Yu Qian, Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of War, presided over the prisoner offering ceremony.

The two brothers Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen got together and whispered to each other, pretending to be close and friendly.In the following prisoner offering ceremony, the two of them had nothing to do, the brothers only needed to look down from above.

Not long after, he was brought up first.

To the astonishment of both Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen, Ye Xian was stripped of his shirt, tied with a few thorns, and escorted up by several eunuchs.

Zhu Qiyu was stunned when he saw this, is this a plea for guilt?

To be honest, this is the first time Zhu Qiyu has seen the live-action plea.

I have to sigh that ministers are really good at taking advantage of loopholes.The goat-raising ceremony was forcibly rejected by Zhu Qiyu, so the ministers made another plea for guilt.

Moreover, on the high platform, there is a row of thorns.After climbing onto the high platform first, you need to kneel on the thorns and walk in front of the second sage.

Zhu Qiyu felt that it was a bit too much. Killing people is nothing more than nodding their heads. Why bother to humiliate like this first, so they looked at Wang Wen.

Wang Wenwei shook his head imperceptibly, indicating that he didn't mean it.

Zhu Qiyu felt a little helpless, so he had to look at Yu Shiyue, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.

(End of this chapter)