Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 448 The Emperor's First Edict

"Zhang Aiqing, is this your daughter?"

Zhu Changyuan's performance is very realistic.

Zhang Guoji was also shocked by Zhu Changyuan's acting skills, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, this girl is the daughter of the minister, but it's not Empress Xianyi'an, but the younger sister of Empress Xian, Zhang Yu."

"Yu'er is six years younger than the previous empress."

"Good!" Zhu Changyuan looked at Zhang Guoji, chuckled, and then said to the officials, "I haven't seen the former empress much, so please look carefully, this woman standing in front of you is Empress An?"

Zhu Changyuan kicked the big ball directly to the courtiers.

The courtiers all focused their eyes on Zhang Yan, and the more they looked at it, the less he looked like it.

"This, it seems to be a little different from the former empress. You see, this woman's eyebrows and face are slightly different from the former empress!" Someone below said uncertainly.

"Yes!" Another human said: "The skin seems to be different, and there is also age. This woman seems to be really much younger."

"This woman has a sick look on her face, not like Empress Zhang..."

"Bold!"

The official was just halfway through his words when he was severely reprimanded by Cao Huachun: "The ministers only need to point out the differences, and there is no criticism!"

Zhu Changyuan nodded, raised his finger to Xue Guoguan, and asked: "Xue Aiqing, do you think this girl is different from the previous empress?"

Xue Guoguan actually looked at it for a long time and was not sure, but Zhu Changyuan had to answer the question, and said: "I thought that the late empress was still buried in Deling, and this woman should be the younger sister of the late empress. There is a slight difference, but the foreign ministers are foreign ministers after all, and the specific differences cannot be clearly stated!"

Zhu Changyuan secretly smiled in his heart: I completely put on makeup for Zhang Yan, and even used V-sculpture, which is popular in modern society, to partially change the shape of the face. If you can see it, I will accept you.

"Zhang Guoji is talking nonsense, you obviously only have one daughter, how dare you bully the king!"

There are still many people in this world who know Zhang Guoji's family background very well, so that person started to make trouble again.

Zhang Guoji was already prepared, bowed his hands to the official, and said: "Thank you, Mr. Liu, for caring about Huaichen's family. Yes, the old man used to have only one daughter. That's because Yu'er was raised in her uncle's house in Kaifeng Mansion since she was a child. Now she returns to my family. What's so strange?"

"Lord Liu!" Zhu Changyuan stood up towards the official, and said with an unhappy face: "Empress Yi'an is dead, I personally saw her body sent to Deling, what is wrong, this woman is Zhang Yu, not Zhang Yan! "

The emperor's export is a constitution, and one word is final!

The courtiers did not dare to quarrel.

"That's her!" Zhu Changyuan stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhang Yu, saying, "Zhang Aiqing has such a good family style, even nurturing two empresses for the Ming Dynasty has contributed to the community!"

"Meet Your Majesty!" Zhang Yu kowtowed to Zhu Changyuan.

Zhu Changyuan walked down the imperial steps himself, stretched out his hand to help Zhang Yu up, and smiled slightly, extremely warm!

Chen Yuanyuan and Yu Min also got down from their respective seats, turned towards Zhang Yuying, and said in unison: "Meet the queen!"

So far, the queen has been elected.

Although the officials are suspicious and unhappy, what does this matter to me?

Zhu Changyuan was extremely proud and laughed out loud!

"Read the imperial edict and confer the title of queen!"

Then, Cao Huachun took out the imperial edict that he had prepared a long time ago and handed it to Zhu Changyuan. Zhu Changyuan only wrote the word "Zhang Yu" in the blank space, and Cao Huachun began to read it out.

Then, the queen canonization ceremony began, and all the officials came up to congratulate.

After almost a day of busy work, the etiquette ceremony is finally over.

Zhu Changyuan's dragon robe and jade belt, pulling Zhang Yu with the phoenix crown and xiapei, walked slowly on the path in the palace, all the way to Kunning Palace, but saw a few clusters of plum trees blooming in full bloom at the gate of the palace.

Suddenly recalling what he had heard about Chongzhen and Queen Zhou, he pointed to the plum blossom tree and said to Zhang Yan: "Chongzhen promised to give Queen Zhou a plum blossom to put in a vase every year, but he didn't keep his promise."

"I also imitate Chongzhen and tell you today, every year in the future, I will personally pick up a plum blossom and give it to you, even if the head is full of gray hair and the house is full of children and grandchildren!"

Zhang Yan, oh no, from now on it should be called Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu raised his head, and turned to look at Zhu Changyuan with a peerless face. His eyes met with tenderness, which was more beautiful than this tree full of plum blossoms!
"Crack!" With a crisp sound, Zhu Changyuan held a wintersweet in his hand, waved it to Zhang Yu, and said, "You need to find a bottle, and I'll help you insert it."

Zhang Yun hummed, and ran to the palace holding Zhu Changyuan's hand like a teenage girl, found a plum vase, put the plum blossoms into the vase, and put it on the table.

In addition to the plum blossom she just put down, there was a row of thirteen bottles of dried branches on the table, which were placed there without being cleaned up, which brought a little sigh to the cheerful Kunning Palace.

When Zhang Yu saw those stems and branches, he seemed to think of something and said to Zhu Changyuan: "It's inevitable that I will live a long night. I hope you can find Brother Lang. He has suffered a lot outside now."

"Don't worry, I'm already looking for it!" Zhu Changyuan took Zhang Yu's hand and smiled slightly.

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After the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Changyuan received congratulatory messages from Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others one after another. At the same time, they also told the court that they had left to go abroad and started an expedition according to the emperor's wishes.

Then, according to Zhu Changyuan's wishes, the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites canonized Princess Gulun Lana as Concubine Zhuang and her righteous sister Bian Yujing as Princess Jinling.

These things are just a little troublesome etiquette. After all, it's no big deal. The cabinet and officials will let Zhu Changyuan not object or pay too much attention to it.

What really attracted the attention of the cabinet and all the officials was Zhu Changyuan's first emperor's edict, but it was a pity that he waited and waited for more than ten days and never came.

The reason why the first edict is important is that for a new level of emperor, the first edict can generally reflect his ruling routine and is a programmatic document.

After studying the emperor's first edict, the ministers will have a clear understanding, know the emperor's goal and be able to get close to it.

Therefore, the cabinet and hundreds of officials are waiting.

After waiting for ten days, Zhu Changyuan finally issued the first edict after the Lantern Festival.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the edict of the Son of Heaven could not be released directly after it was drafted, but it had to be studied and even approved by the cabinet, and then a formal official document could be formed after a little polishing.

Sometimes, if the emperor's imperial edict seriously violates the law or some system established by the ancestors, it is likely to be rejected by the cabinet.

After Zhu Changyuan's first edict reached the cabinet, everyone in the cabinet rushed to Cao Huachun in a hurry.

"Duke Cao, Your Majesty has an edict?"

Zhang Sizhi was the first to run up to Cao Huachun and asked.

Cao Huachun nodded, and said with a smile: "My elders, Your Majesty has an imperial edict, please read it first!" He handed the bright yellow imperial edict in his hand to Zhang Sizhi.

Zhang Sizhi put the edict on the table, and Wei Zaode, Xue Guoguan, Wang Daozhi, Chen Yan, etc. ran over to watch it one by one, all with the heart to understand the holy will, but unfortunately, when they saw the content of the edict, they still didn't know They all thought they were wrong.

"Mr. Cao, this..." Wei Zaode looked at Cao Huachun suspiciously.

Cao Huachun chuckled and said, "Don't be confused. That's right. This is the imperial edict written by His Majesty himself. Your Majesty told the officials that if you ministers think that your Majesty's edict is wrong, you can bring it up and our family will report it on your behalf!" While speaking, he also bowed his hands in the direction of Qianqing Palace where Zhu Changyuan was.

Wei Zaode shook his head, and handed the edict to others, who also shook their heads.

"Everyone, I won't wait any longer. Your Majesty means that if you have no objections, you will formally announce it to the world. If you have any objections, you must raise them within two days."

"I would like to obey the imperial decree!" Xue Guoguan led the ministers bowed to thank him, and then said: "I will make a decision with Tang Ruowang when I turn back!"

Zhu Changyuan's first edict did not have any substantive content, but he did something unexpected. The meaning of the edict probably said: Change the calendar!
It turns out that the lunar calendar is expressed by the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches. Zhu Changyuan feels that scholars will have a headache for a long time when they see these chronologies, let alone the common people of the lower class. In the beginning of the new year, the old method of chronology of stems and branches was abolished, and a new method was implemented, from the first day to the thirtieth day of the new year, expressed in ways that are easier for ordinary people to understand, such as one, two, three, and four.

This is the first meaning revealed in Zhu Changyuan's imperial edict.

Second, because the current Ming calendar is no longer suitable for the requirements of the times, Zhu Changyuan revised the calendar again, pushing forward according to the solar calendar in modern society, and has been pushed back to the present era, and stipulated the basic principles of the solar calendar.

As a new type of calendar, the solar calendar is used at the same time as the old calendar, and the official documents are based on the solar calendar.

The so-called solar calendar refers to the Gregorian calendar in modern society, and it also refers to the Western calendar!
At first glance, Zhu Changyuan's first imperial edict was merely to change the old calendar and count the years. It did not reveal any policy program, nor did it show his ministers the path he would take after leading the Ming Empire.

This is just something on the surface, most people can't see the deeper level.

At a deeper level, Zhu Changyuan told them in this way: I want to reform, drastic reform, reforming the calendar is just the beginning, I also want to reform the administration of officials, management methods, and even the political system.

In this way, the emperor's first official edict on governance was passed in the cabinet and began to be issued to all parts of the country.Of course, the main function of the old calendar is to know agricultural production. Zhu Changyuan's new calendar naturally also has these functions, so the 24 solar terms are also incorporated into the calendar by the way to guide people in agricultural production.

(End of this chapter)