On November 15, the thirty-fourth year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was Shuntian Mansion.
The Ming Dynasty peace talks delegation arrived in the capital.
"They have achieved victory that was not achieved on the battlefield, and their return this time is a triumph."
According to the instructions of the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, the Ministry of Rites organized a welcome ceremony of the highest level, just like a ceremony to welcome the victorious troops returning to the court.
After the delegation landed in Tianjin, they transferred to a special train and entered the capital.
But instead of taking the train directly into the Old City like when I left, I got off the train at Xincheng South Station.
All the representatives spent two days repairing at the post station in the south of the new city.
Then they took an open-top car prepared by the Ministry of Rites and paraded through the main roads of the new city.
This is actually the key stage of the entire liturgy.
The people of the new city lined both sides of the street to welcome him.
The achievements of the delegation have long been disseminated among the people through various newspapers.
Their achievements and their impact on current life have been carefully analyzed and disseminated.
Endless orders, higher and higher wages, more space for immigrants to explore, and Huangzhuang has begun recruiting immigrants again,
All are directly related to this negotiation.
Those industries that were opened before the peace talks were directly ripened and fed by the vast land and vast market acquired through the negotiations.
The value of the first batch of people to eat crabs has doubled several times.
Only now do I remember that the latecomers who entered the market have already started making money.
No one is unappreciated and no one is unwelcome. There is no need to find someone to greet or enhance the atmosphere during the entire ceremony.
On both sides of the road, in the windows on the street, and on the rooftops, there were crowds of people watching and cheering.
The atmosphere in the entire new town was extremely lively.
The members of the clan, the officials of the court, and the returning representatives themselves were also very excited.
At the beginning of the peace talks, everyone thought that this might be the first peace treaty without victory in the Ming Dynasty, and that it might even involve ceding territory.
So much so that everyone dares to mention peace talks, but no one is willing to host them.
As a result, Zhu Jingyuan, the young emperor's grandson, was asked to speak and served as the plenipotentiary representative of the peace talks.
I originally thought that the emperor's grandson was going to take the blame, so the old emperor made an exception and directly made him a prince. No one had any objections.
So much so that Zhu Jingyuan asked Ming Dynasty to cooperate in negotiations to make reforms, and all officials and clan members accepted it.
In the end, the young emperor and grandson negotiated a great victory.
All the reform projects became extremely smooth because of the smooth negotiations.
Now the entire Ming Dynasty is in a state of burning oil.
A new era is beginning.
The motorcade of the peace talks delegation passed through the entire new capital city and entered the old city from Yongding Gate amid cheers from both sides of the road.
Then turned directly into the Temple of Heaven.
The official ceremony was held directly at the Temple of Heaven, which was actually a special ceremony to worship the heaven.
Because the emperor and the Ministry of Rites believed that the merits of the delegation needed to be told to heaven.
The specific achievements of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor in this peace negotiation were already told to heaven when they were enshrined in Mount Tai.
Now it's time to express your gratitude to the delegation.
But everyone was very excited. Their contribution this time could be dedicated to the heaven, and they could tell the heaven to know about it.
After the tedious ceremony was over, the old emperor returned to the Forbidden City with all the civil and military officials and entered the Fengtian Hall.
The old emperor sat on the throne, and the officials sat on both sides.
The old emperor ordered the cabinet bachelor to come out and announce the decree.
Members of the delegation who had just returned from overseas thought they were going to be rewarded.
As a result, what the old emperor announced was the edict of Zen status.
The second son of the emperor, Zhu Jianyan, was ordered to ascend the throne immediately, and Zhu Zhongliang himself was promoted to the supreme emperor as usual.
The ministers who had just returned were a little shocked, but the cultural relic officials who stayed in the capital had already expected it.
Ever since Zhu Jianyan replaced Zhu Jianfeng as the Minister of Civil Affairs, everyone knew that the old emperor was going to change his successor.
Then the old emperor was directly responsible for fewer and fewer things, which showed that after this replacement, there would be a complete decentralization and handover of power.
Especially after returning from the Zen Ceremony, the old emperor completely stopped taking care of things.
At the same time, the end of the year is coming soon, and the return time of the peace delegation is a more appropriate time to announce his abdication.
In this way, preparations will be made in the last month of the year, the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor will be held on the first day of the year, and the yuan will be officially changed on the first day of the new year.
This was a practice established during the reign of Emperor Sejo.
Zhu Jianyan first went to the apse to change the emperor's robes. After coming out, he saluted the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang and succeeded to the throne in front of the old emperor.
Then the new emperor Zhu Jianyan accepted the homage of all civil and military officials, and Zhu Zhongliang left the palace briskly and returned to the harem.
Zhu Jianyan and all the officials bowed and sent Zhu Zhongliang out of the hall, and formally took Zhu Zhongliang's original seat.
Today's simple ceremony is not a formal enthronement ceremony.
Now it is just a direct transfer of the emperor's power. Under the supervision and instructions of the previous emperor, the new emperor begins to act as emperor.
After the enthronement ceremony on Yuan Day was completed, the era of the new emperor officially began.
Zhu Jianyan sat in the place where he had looked up countless times, looking down at the officials on the left and right sides, feeling excited and anxious.
My family knows my own affairs, and most of my throne was earned by my precious son...
After Zhu Jianyan secured his position, he began to award rewards to the returning delegation.
The first is Zhu Jianfeng, the representative of the clan. Although he is not present now, in theory he has the highest status.
Zhu Jianfeng is already a prince, so of course there is no way to improve his title.
Zhu Jianyan could only follow the practice after the Renwu Dynasty and give him land ownership and the right to dividends from the imperial village.
After Emperor Shizu rebuilt the Ming Dynasty, he established stricter land control and recovery mechanisms.
Emperor Shizu stipulated that all land in the world belonged to the Ming Emperor.
Half of the farmland obtained from land reclamation belongs to the land reclamation developer, and the other half belongs to the imperial estate controlled by the emperor.
When all land reclamation, rewards, and ancestral lands and farmland are to be sold, Huangzhuang has the right of priority to buy them back.
In other words, all new farmland opened up and all large and small land transactions must go through the procedures here in Huangzhuang.
Anyone who violates Huangzhuang's right of first refusal and trades land privately will be directly confiscated once discovered.
The current land annexation in the Ming Dynasty was very thorough, but most of it was annexed to the emperor.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the largest landowner in the Ming Dynasty, controlling nearly half of the developed land in the Ming Dynasty and owning all undeveloped land.
The land awarded to the clan by the emperor can be used to build holiday estates, rent it out to make money, or sell it.
But the sales target can only be the emperor or the royal consortium.
Huangzhuang's dividend right is to designate one or several Huangzhuangs to receive a maximum dividend of no more than 30% within the next thirty years.
The basis of this dividend ratio is not the amount of dividends from all the income of the Imperial Palace, but the amount of dividends that should have been distributed to the emperor.
The emperor could take out at most 30% of his own dividends and distribute them to designated clans with meritorious services.
Zhu Jianyan was just east of Tongzhou in the east of the capital, and divided one hundred square kilometers from the Huangzhuang land as a reward for Zhu Jianfeng.
In addition, 30% of the royal family's dividends will be given to Xiyang Cape Palace in the next fifteen years.
As for Zhu Jingyuan, the real leader of the peace talks, Zhu Jianyan did not directly reward him and skipped it for the time being.
It's not that Zhu Jianyan is reluctant to reward his son, but he wants to discuss it directly with his son and ask the boy what he wants.
Then he was directly promoted from the status of young minister of Honglu Temple to the full-time minister of Honglu Temple, and also received the title of earl.
Other senior officials have also been promoted by one level, and many mid-level and low-level officials have been directly promoted by two levels.
And this promotion is just the beginning.
After Zhu Jianyan's enthronement ceremony, there will be a number of large-scale promotions.
At that time, it will not only be rewards for the peace delegation, but also a large number of middle and high-level officials will have the opportunity to be promoted.
It is customary for the old emperor's contemporaries to retire together with the old emperor, unless the two generations of emperors specifically retained them.
If the new emperor's brothers serve in the court, all existing actual positions will be directly revoked and transferred to the Clan's Court.
In this way, a large number of positions of real power will be vacant in the court, and the new emperor can directly arrange people he once liked.
At the same time, the team members who served in the local area can be called into the capital and placed in needed positions.
The entire court will undergo a rapid change of blood, allowing the new emperor to quickly assume real power.
The rewards for the peace talks are over, and today's dynasty is over.
The princes and ministers all left the palace happily.
A few ministers stayed specifically to report some special news directly to the emperor and submit some special letters.
Shen Fu took three letters from Zhu Jingyuan and presented them to his former boss and current monarch, Zhu Jianyan:
"Your Majesty, this is a letter from His Royal Highness Prince Dashi to the Supreme Emperor, His Majesty and his wife."
Zhu Jianyan was obviously a little surprised.
There is obviously a telegraph available, but this guy even writes a letter specifically...
Let the guards take it over after checking, let Shen Fu go back to rest, and go to the back hall to find his father.
The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, who had become the Supreme Emperor, was also very surprised when he heard that Zhu Jingyuan had written a letter to him.
He took his own letter and read the beginning, then turned to read his son's letter.
Zhu Jianyan was also reading his letter. Not knowing what his father was thinking, he subconsciously asked:
"Father...what happened?"
Zhu Zhongliang said in surprise:
"This guy didn't even use the same opening greeting for you and me..."
Zhu Jianyan didn't understand what his father's thinking was about, and felt that both his grandfather and grandson's way of thinking was different from ordinary people.
Zhu Jianyan didn't know how to answer, so Zhu Zhongliang asked and answered himself:
"It must have been written by Dian Shu."
Zhu Jianyan said subconsciously:
"This is Jingyuan's own handwriting..."
Zhu Zhongliang said of course:
"Then let the diary book be written, and he would copy it again himself."
Zhu Jianyan was speechless:
"Father...this greeting is not the point, the point is the things he mentioned.
"Should he be allowed to build a navy or even... an air force in the food country?"
Zhu Zhongliang waved his hand directly and continued to read the letter while saying:
"Now that you are the emperor, you can decide for yourself. Don't ask me about everything. I want to start keeping in good health now..."
Zhu Jianyan was even more speechless:
"Father, please rest first. I will go back to the palace first and bring back Jingyuan's mother's letter..."
This time the old emperor didn't go astray again. He nodded gently and said:
"I will move to a palace outside the city in the next few days. I won't come back unless there is something big. You can also prepare to move into the palace."
Zhu Jianyan bowed and agreed:
"My son, I obey."
