On December 5, the fourth year of Wanli, the empress dowagers of the two palaces told the Ministry of Etiquette: Today, the eldest daughter of Zhuang Yun, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, has been selected as the queen, and the wedding is scheduled. What etiquette should be followed? The ministry will work with the Hanlin Academy to make a decision.
After receiving the edict, the Ministry of Rites transferred it to the Qin Tian Jian, who then reported to the Qin Tian Jian to choose an auspicious date for the wedding, preferably in December. Therefore, it is already December, and the Ministry of Rites has stated that December of the fifth year of Wanli should be the auspicious month for the wedding.
Zhu Yijun was furious and criticized: "The previous system of the Datong calendar was full of absurdities, and I have warned against it! What's more, on the day when the platform is summoned, the supervisor should not care about the affairs of the state, and the period can be chosen at will for half a year. Now it is more reasonable to think that the wedding period is only twelve months, how can it be justified? Please choose another date!"
The emperor wanted to accuse Qin Tianjian in the memorial, but Zhang Hong, the chief official of the ceremonial department, and Chen Ju, the minister of the inner court, did not dare to neglect it. Because the emperor's speech on his wedding day was not in line with the etiquette, he was afraid that future generations would laugh at him, so he urgently reported to the Empress Dowager Cisheng.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she had no choice but to issue an order to the cabinet, saying so and so. Zhang Juzheng was angered by the fact that he was being called the "Prime Minister of the Cabinet", and he also had opinions about the Ministry of Rites and the Qin Tianjian.
So the next day, the assistant minister Zhang Juzheng and others reported: "The Queen Mother of the Holy Mother said that most of the marriages of the ancestors and saints were at the age of sixteen. The current emperor is only fifteen years old, and the middle palace is only fourteen. If the attendant is in December next year, he has passed the election. If the wedding date is in December this year, it would be too urgent."
After Zhang Juzheng pointed out the nonsense about the wedding date chosen by the Qin Tian Jian and the Ministry of Rites, he also reported: "The Qin Tian Jian said that the only month of the year is the twelfth month of the year, and everything else is in the way. It is a folk custom that the ministers only have taboos about the time. However, there are still those who are not fully tested. Moreover, the emperor is the master of the hundreds of gods in heaven and earth, and every move made by the hundreds of gods will serve and be served. How can the small skills of yin and yang be used and detained?
"I think it would be better to hold a grand ceremony in February or March next year, when all things are happening. According to ancient rituals, men and women meet in mid-spring. Now if it is determined to be spring, it will not only coincide with the harmony of heaven and earth, but also the harmony of all things. When he was sixteen years old, he took the lead in following the rules of the pilgrimage, no matter how late or early, and he was the most consistent. I begged to obey the decree, but I don’t know what the Holy Mother’s intention was.”
The cabinet memorial arrived at Ci Sheng's desk, and Our Lady then decreed that the wedding date would be March next year. Zhu Yijun then issued an edict: "According to the Holy Mother's instructions, I will choose an auspicious occasion to perform the ceremony in March next year."
The episode was passed smoothly, and the entire court began to get busy surrounding the emperor's wedding.
In the original time and space, Emperor Wanli and Sister Wang Xi got married, and the treasury was depleted. But Zhu Yijun of this time and space said that there is no need to collect various tributes from the whole country, everything is provided by internal funds. The first step was to establish a leading group for the emperor's wedding in the attendant's room, with the British Duke in charge.
During the draft, Zhang Chun, the eunuch in charge of the seventh rank of the Royal Horse Eunuch who had made meritorious service in Yunnan, suddenly became the chief eunuch and became the assistant of the walking minister Chen Ju, responsible for coordinating the purchase of the emperor's wedding.
On December 15th of the fourth year of Wanli, the first expenditure begins. First, allocate a hundred taels of gold from the internal funds to the Hanlin Academy for them to make books and treasures;
On the 16th, internal funds allocated 6,600 taels of red gold to the handicraft factory to make jewelry for the queen and concubines. On the same day, the Liaodong Purchasing Branch presented 8,600 eastern pearls for the use of the queen and the other eight concubines. Zhang Spring also allocates handicraft factories.
On the 17th, the Royal Silk Factory received another order for Jifu. Not to mention the number of pieces, the number of silks, satins and other materials of various colors alone amounts to 64,000 pieces. Everyone in the Forbidden City has a share, and they will look brand new to welcome the auspicious day.
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Here, money is spent as flowing water, and there is a large set of etiquette matters that require the participation of the entire court. The emperor, like the common people, also needs to go through the process of six rites in the wedding process-namely, accepting the gift, asking for the name, accepting the auspiciousness, accepting the levy, announcing the date, and personally welcoming.
On the 18th, Zhu Yijun issued an edict to the cabinet: with the British Duke Zhang Rong as the chief envoy and Zhang Juzheng as the deputy envoy, the ceremony of accepting the gift and asking for honors would be held on December 20th.
According to the usual protocol, a guard of honor was displayed outside the gate of Qianqing Palace, and the female Yue Danbi was placed. There are two tables covered with ocher yellow satin in the main hall. On one table is the "Jie" given by the emperor to the envoy, and on the other table is the "asking for names" edict.
When the auspicious time came, Zhu Yijun ascended to the throne wearing auspicious clothes. The princes and ministers fell to the ground and knelt down, shouting long live. The proclaimer followed the edict and appointed the chief and deputy angels. After a ceremony, the two went to the banker who had moved to the new residence in the capital to ask for their names, accompanied by drum music.
Zhuang Yunchang bets his daughter's youth on the future, and he really made the bet after careful calculation. Because he accompanied his daughter all the way through the battle, he also expected that her daughter would become one of the nine concubines, so he had already sent a message back and asked the family to move Yinzi to the capital - and when the good news came, he would start buying a house and land.
Sure enough, at the end of November, the good news came. Zhuang Yunchang, an old scholar who had failed in the examination for a long time, became the commander of the Jinyi Guards first and had the title of military attaché of the third rank. After the wedding, the earl will be in possession of it - if the queen gives birth to a prince, the banker's wealth will be guaranteed for three or four lifetimes.
When the honor guard and drum band arrived at the door of the conductor's house, Zhuang Yunchang knelt at the door to receive the angel, accepted the gift according to the order, and thanked him. After another prescribed question-and-answer ceremony, Zhuang Yunchang presented the "list" with his daughter's name, birth date, etc. to the British duke, and finally entertained the angels and his entourage with a feast.
After the British Duke and Zhang Juzheng had a full meal, they still carried Zhuang Jingjia's birth certificate back to the Forbidden City. This process of accepting gifts and asking for names has come to an end.
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Firecrackers were blasting, and the noisy bustle of gongs and drums gradually dissipated. The idlers watching the excitement in front of the Zhuang Mansion also talked and walked away.
At this time, in the military aircraft office of Nanyuan Martial Arts School, which was transformed from a former palace, a group of generals were surrounding the emperor, arguing fiercely.
Zhu Yijun drove directly to Nanyuan after the palace ceremony. If we were to talk about which place outside the Forbidden City Zhu Yijun went to the most, it could only be martial arts.
At this time, in the Military Aircraft Department, Jing Yuanbo's Executive Deputy Chief Qi Jiguang, Ministry of War Minister Tan Lun, Liu Yingjie, who had handed over the errand of Governor Jiliao, Director of the Logistics Department Yin Zhengmao, Professor Ma Buke Ma Gui, Liu Xian and others were gathered together. Discuss the military strategy for conquering Burma.
As the saying goes, the wind wants to be calm but the wind will not stop. Zhu Yijun controlled the development of the Northeast and the management of the Huanghuai River basin based on his limited historical knowledge and believed that there were no major wars in the early Wanli years. But he never expected that the draft envoy sent out by Wanli in the fourth year would actually dig out some exciting information.
Some of the imperial envoys in charge of the national draft this time were focused on money, while others were just doing errands. After returning to Beijing, not only their money but also their positions were wasted.
Some also conducted routine investigations, but failed to dig out any inside information that Jin Yiwei did not grasp, which was in vain.
But there are also some thoughtful people who never miss any opportunity to improve their performance - Zhang Chun, the eunuch who was sent to Yunnan as the Royal Horse Supervisor, even though he only brought back ten beautiful women, he dug out the materials that the Jin Yiwei had not dug out. .
In the fourth year of Wanli, the Mangrui Ti of the Toungoo dynasty of Myanmar and the Yisi troops from the southwest invaded the border and launched a large-scale attack on Jisi. Mengyang Chieftain Si Ge always asked Wang Ning, the governor of Yunnan, for help.
When Zhang Chun arrived in Yunnan, Sikeyi was trying to clear the wilderness at Mengyang Jianbi. The Burmese army wanted to advance but was unable to do so. The two routes were cut off by Wu Lula, the leader sent by Sikeyi, and they fell into a dead end.
However, Sigeyi did not have the troops to counterattack, so the envoy urged the governor of Yunnan urgently. Luo Rufang, Jin Teng's deputy envoy to the field, had already spent a lot of money to recruit businessmen traveling to and from the Ming-Myanmar border to find out the strength of the Mang-Rui Ti coalition.
When they found out, they had already begun to kill elephants and horses, peel off tree bark and eat grass roots. "The epidemic broke out in the army, and the dead gathered in mountains." Luo Rufang was overjoyed and sent a message to the chieftains from all over the country to gather troops and horses, hoping to annihilate the coalition forces in Mengyang.
However, Zhu Yijun, who later received the news, was devastated. Luo Rufang cursed and vomited blood. Wang Ning, the governor of Yunnan, was not familiar with border affairs at all. He actually regarded "preventing the happy events of border generals and treating them calmly" as the guideline for governing Yunnan. He sent a message to Luo Rufang and forbade him from sending troops for reinforcements.
Luo Rufang was so angry that she wanted to die when she saw that she couldn't get enough of the great success she had at her fingertips. Zhang Chun said in his report that he "continued to express his anger, threw it on the ground, cursed and then stopped."
What made Zhu Yijun angry was that because Emperor Tiangao was too far away, the Jin Yiwei stationed in Yunnan actually sat there and had no meals. Thousands of local households were engaged in tea and horse business and forgot about business matters. Such military information was not reported.
Luo Rufang had no right to speak directly, and her anger had nowhere to complain. Coincidentally, I accidentally learned that the emperor sent a lieutenant to Yunnan for the draft. He gritted his teeth and actually went to the goalkeeper Wang Ning to complain about missing the opportunity to fight.
Zhang Chunping was overjoyed to have achieved a great success for nothing. But after being with Zhu Yijun for a long time, I didn't dare to believe it easily. He sent people close to him to the border to inquire - and finally found out that the situation was exactly the same as Luo Rufang's.
After returning to Beijing, Zhu Yijun was furious when he reported the report.
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