The spring in the eleventh year of Wanli was very long, and the people who grew up in the capital felt strange: Why is it so cool this summer?
Although the temperature is rising slowly, the trees and flowers are still sprouting when they should and spitting out their pistils according to the habits of the early years.
With the arrival of late spring, Zhu Yijun's first tour as emperor finally took place. On March 20th, the emperor left the city from Daming Gate. Since his first stop was to visit the mausoleum and worship his ancestors, he stopped at the Tangshan Hot Spring Palace that day to facilitate the emperor's fasting and bathing.
Going out on inspection tours of the capital was considered a routine operation for nomadic emperors such as the Liao, Yuan and Manchu emperors. After Emperor Kangxi reached middle age, he went out to Beijing for hunting tours almost every year; Emperor Qianlong was an expert at traveling. He wrote inscriptions while wandering around, leaving countless imperial pens across the country. He wrote thousands of poems about various scenery. . Every time he visited a place, Qianlong would taste the local snacks and comment on them: If there was a hornet's nest in the Qing Dynasty, with his diligence, it would be easy to be the head of a bee.
But for the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, who had a relatively homely personality and relatively strong ministers, going on patrol was a big deal.
First is the name. When we were in Huanghuang, the emperor told us not to go out on hunting tours. So after the New Year, the emperor first issued an edict: ""Shun Dian": "In the second month of the year, patrol the east for hunting." Mencius said: "Those who patrol for hunting should also patrol for defense." It is difficult for the emperor to live in the ninth level and not to walk down. I have to fulfill my responsibilities. I organize the army, manage the affairs of the world, and benefit the people. I must patrol all over the place and know... Wherever I go, I must not waste money or disturb the people. I am not traveling, but listening to the voices of the people. also......"
This is the unified thought: I am not going on a trip! I am going to do research and stabilize the northern border! And we guarantee that we will not disturb the people or waste money, and no one will force us to do so!
Because the emperor has worked hard to govern during the ten years since he took the throne and never harmed national affairs for personal gain. Although a lot of money was made from the imperial shops and factories, except for the renovation of the Tangshan Palace, there was no major renovation of the gardens. Most of the profits were reinvested in the national economy and people's livelihood. Later, a large-scale reform was carried out and the examination was refined, which made everyone live and die. However, it turns out that although the reform caused a lot of problems, the appearance of a prosperous age had gradually emerged, and the officials had nothing to say. Not to mention that there were some people who talked a lot before, and they were dead and leaked, so the preparations for public opinion for the entire tour were calm.
After the ideological unification is completed, the Ministry of Rites will formulate the etiquette system. Needless to say, the emperor's carriage and the configuration of the lavish carriage and honor guard must also be confirmed several times in accordance with the emperor's hunting etiquette, so as not to make the world laugh.
At the same time, the court also needs to determine the candidates to stay. When the emperor leaves the capital, if there is an emergency and the capital has no time to ask for instructions, there must be someone who can make the final decision. Empress Dowager Li was originally the best candidate, but she outdid herself and left Empress Zhuang in the trap. In addition, the queen was diagnosed with pregnancy, and the king of Luo County was young, so he had no choice but to stay in Beijing and serve as Zhang Juzheng's backbone.
The only thing that caused some minor disturbances during the preparations was the issue of Zhu Yili leaving the palace. As the emperor's brother-in-law and hereditary successor, King Lu is already sixteen years old and is no longer suitable to live in the palace. However, Zhu Yijun never regarded him as an adult who could start a family and start a career, so she never mentioned letting him leave the palace. Empress Dowager Li was happy to pretend to be ignorant, so she kept letting King Lu live in the palace.
After the imperial family reform, it was decided that all the kings in the world would leave their fiefdoms and reside in Beijing. Zhu Yijun allocated funds for large-scale construction and built dozens of royal palaces, including Prince Lu's palace. Because Zhu Yijun liked this chubby younger brother very much, and considering the views of Empress Dowager Li, he allocated 168,000 taels of silver to build the palace of Prince Lu beautifully.
But until the palace was completed, Queen Mother Li did not let her youngest son leave the palace to live in the palace. Some courtiers reminded me that Zhu Yijun also wanted to stay in the country because of Empress Dowager Li's reputation, so he refused to express his position.
In the original time and space, King Lu lost his virginity to the temptation of a palace maid when he was twelve years old. This incident caused an uproar in the palace. Empress Dowager Li lost her cool and turned her anger on Emperor Wanli. Wanli was also very angry and almost killed the eunuchs and palace maids around King Lu. Kill them all.
Although King Lu in this time and space was also pampered by Queen Mother Li, he became much more reliable under Zhu Yijun's strict control. After he entered adolescence, Zhu Yijun arranged several "old adults" around him to guard him day and night in order to prevent him from getting interested in sex and misbehaving. I also talked to him many times to prevent him from getting sick due to premature leakage of Yuanyang.
King Lu was bitter about being restrained by his brother. He expressed his desire to live in the palace many times in front of Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun said every time, tell your mother. But facing Queen Mother Li's sad eyes, King Lu did not dare to express his feelings directly. Having no choice but to endure hard days in the palace, Zhu Yijun also arranged for him to have various tutors to train him in moral, physical, artistic and labor aspects. King Lu really felt that he could not bear his mother's love.
Before King Luo Jun was born, Zhu Yijun went out of the capital to pay homage to the mausoleum for a short time, and King Lu supervised the country each time. After Prince Luo was born, even though he was still in his infancy, Prince Luo began to take on the role of supervising the country. This was the right thing to do, and no one thought it was abnormal.
The emperor's hunting tour to the north this time was of great importance. Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng also wrote an inscription asking King Lu to leave the inner palace.
Zhu Yijun saw that King Lu was going crazy from being suppressed, so he told Queen Mother Li about the matter. Although Empress Dowager Li was a little reluctant, Prince Lu's palace was in the capital, and Empress Dowager Li thought her son could be invited to see him. This was much better than having to maintain a vassal status before the clan reform. Besides, considering King Lu's age, he was really not suitable to live in the inner palace anymore, so he nodded in agreement.
So, King Lu was like the fish that was decoupled, and the bird that was released from the cage flew into his own palace in a flash. Zhu Yijun received the report the next day. King Lu was lucky enough to have three maids rewarded by the Queen Mother that night until dawn, but he fell ill directly.
According to the diagnosis by the imperial physician, "The prince's dampness is declining, with alternating itching and pain. The tongue is light red, the coating is greasy, and the pulse is weak." As a hereditary prince, this case must be recorded in the clan mansion. The imperial doctor simply wrote these few sentences to save face for the royal family - in fact, he was bald and tired.
Zhu Yijun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and his original plan to let King Lu get married after he turned eighteen was abandoned. After all, I haven't set a good example myself, so using my younger brother's late marriage to change customs is indeed a bit unscrupulous. As for his sisters and his own daughter, Zhu Yijun made up his mind that he could not become the master until he was seventeen years old.
After King Lu left the palace, Zhu Yijun decreed that the king of Jinluo County should be made a prince, named Zhu Changhao, and he would supervise the country again when the emperor was on a hunting tour. Although this edict did not establish Zhu Changhao as the crown prince, the officials and people all over the world knew where the emperor's heart belonged, and no one made any noise about it.
After several twists and turns, the emperor's preparations for the tour were completed. Zhu Yijun left the capital this time with 1,500 internal guards, 16,000 new troops, and all kinds of new firearms. If the logistics can keep up, it will not be a problem to sweep such a force to the Ural Mountains.
Accompanying the prince were three hereditary princes: Prince Zheng, Prince Jin, and Prince Qin, the first-class Duke and Privy Councilor Zhu Shitai, and the second-class Duke Zhang Yuangong. The old British Duke Zhang Rong died in Wanli ten years, and his eldest son Zhang Yuangong succeeded the second-class Duke.
The courtiers accompanying him included Zhang Siwei, Pan Sheng, Liu Yingjie, Yin Zhengmao, Shen Shixing, Zhang Jing, Chen Ju and dozens of others. Nearly one-tenth of the courtiers followed Zhu Yijun. In addition, monk Hanshan and other religious figures also followed the holy driver to facilitate preaching to tribal leaders and accompany the emperor to meet with Yellow Sect lamas.
Zhang Siwei, as the chief minister accompanying Zhu Yijun, followed Zhu Yijun out of the capital this time, which meant that he would replace Zhang Juzheng to handle the various inscriptions and memorials delivered to the bank by express horse. The ministers also knew that Zhang Siwei had taken over after Zhang Juzheng resigned. Basically got the emperor's approval. For Zhang Siwei, the attendant's trip out of Beijing was a political statement by the emperor to pave the way for him and create public opinion.
The first person following the Holy Driver in the inner palace was the Empress Dowager Cisheng. In order to avoid loneliness on the journey, Zhu Yijun also brought several concubines with him: Concubine Li Shun, Concubine Wang Xian, Wei Zhaoyi, and Ning Jieyu, a total of four. They are all childless, three of them play mahjong with the Queen Mother, and one can serve tea and water - these are all filial piety, no one can fault them.
As for Zheng Jieyu, who was promoted from the beauty level, after publishing a paper on capacitors, she has evolved into a first-class researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology, and will soon become the first female academician of the Wanli Dynasty. At this time, she does not care about the emperor at all.
