Wei Bin replied with a guilty conscience: "There has never been any customization in the palace, but it is a rule that the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager live in the Renshou and Qingning Palaces..."
Zhu Houcong understood, his face slightly cold.
Did Empress Dowager Zhang use this little trick to embarrass Jiajing?
The Sixth Palace of the East and West is the residence of the emperor's harem. What does it mean to place Concubine Shao there?
Zhu Houzhao passed away, and her queen was quickly arranged to go to Qingning Palace, another residence of the queen mother.
And the Dowager Dowager Shao, who is more senior than the Queen Mother Zhang, moved to the Weiyang Palace from the Yinghua Palace, where the conditions were worse, and claimed that this was her old residence, but here are the rules!
Weiyang Palace is on Neixi Road, located in the northeast corner of Renshou Palace.
Zhu Houcong went around in circles and came back here.
Amid the nervous mood of Wei Bin and others, Zhu Houcong didn't say anything at first.
When they arrived at the gate of Weiyang Palace, they saw a palace maid holding an old woman with her hands open towards the door. She looked around with eyes blankly, tears streaming down her face: "Has the emperor arrived? Where is the emperor?"
"Grandma, my grandson is here." Zhu Houcong walked over quickly.
Concubine Shao burst into tears, touching his face with trembling hands, and then touching the top of her head to measure his size: "It's great, it's really great..."
The old man's pure affection made Zhu Houcong feel soft and sour in his heart. He held her hand and walked slowly into the main hall: "Grandma, my grandson is back now. Soon, my concubine and your two granddaughters will also be here. , when the time comes, we will all live together, and you can enjoy your family to the fullest.”
Concubine Shao just kept crying tears of joy: "It's great, it's great..."
She was still looking at Zhu Houcong in front of her, but there was no focus in her eyes.
Concubine Shao gave birth to three sons in total, but all three sons have now passed away after reaching adulthood. There is only one son, Zhu Houcong, in this generation of grandsons.
It was during these days when she heard that her sons were passing away one by one and her grandsons were also dying young, the former imperial concubine and later a marginalized person in the Forbidden City, Shao Taifei, cried her eyes out.
But her only remaining grandson is now about to ascend the throne and become emperor.
This wonderful fate, as well as the old concubine's true feelings, made the other eunuchs and maids in Weiyang Palace sigh with emotion, or cry with other reasons.
Zhu Houcong stayed in Weiyang Palace for a while before leaving at the urging of Concubine Shao.
"Go, today is your big day, come and see grandma when you have time. Now it's better, grandma doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, and she can also see my grandson."
Concubine Shao could not see it, but now she finally smiled happily.
Zhu Houcong left Weiyang Palace, feeling uneasy.
He said that he didn’t have to worry about food and clothing now, but he was afraid that he had worried about it before.
The situation of Weiyang Palace seems to be much better than that of Qingning Palace, but that is probably because Zhu Houzhao's concubines lived there before and there have been people maintaining it.
Now, in addition to the palace maids and eunuchs Zhu Houcong brought over from Anlu, Empress Dowager Zhang also sent some people over.
If he hadn't taken charge of this palace, Taifei Shao would not have been treated like this.
Although the current treatment is very strange, revealing the calculation and temptation.
It was only on this trip to the harem that I met three people, walked between the palace walls, and saw the people who were really living here at this moment, and their lives became vivid before their eyes.
Who lived in Weiyang Palace two months ago, and where is he being driven to now?
"Zhang Zuo, go to Weiyang Palace to serve you first." Zhu Houcong spoke.
"My slave obeys the order." Zhang Zhao was not dissatisfied at all, even though he would stay away from important positions in the palace for this reason.
It was said that he was going to Weiyang Palace, but in reality he was serving the emperor's real relatives.
He understood that the princess... no, the queen mother would definitely come to the palace soon. How could the concubine and the queen mother have been living in this Weiyang Palace?
Zhu Houcong looked at the entrance of Renshou Palace not far away, and while walking towards Fengtian Palace, he asked in detail the names of each palace.
After asking this question, he looked up at the Fengtian Hall not far away in front of the Huagai Hall. It was obviously much larger than the Taihe Hall in his memory.
It turns out that the Forbidden City at this time was quite different from the Forbidden City that I visited in later generations.
There is no Cining Palace at all, there are no two auxiliary halls on either side of Qianqing Palace, and the famous Yangxin Palace is still nowhere to be found.
There is also a large Qin'an Hall in the Imperial Garden, which is dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu.
Since entering the city, he has been running around non-stop.
As soon as he arrived at the Fengtian Hall, Zhu Houcong was still looking at the huge pillar that was nearly a hundred meters wide and required three or four people to hug him in the hall. Zhang Zuo, who was waiting there, came up to him and said, "Your Majesty, the elders have revised and sent the imperial edict on the throne. ”
Zhu Houcong took the edict, opened it, walked to the throne and read it carefully.
The throne is surrounded by six gold-lacquered dragon pillars. The golden dragon's mouth is facing the orb in the central caisson on the roof of the palace. Cranes, cauldrons and dragon-carved screens surround the gold-lacquered dragon throne.
After reading it once, a smile appeared on his lips: "You are indeed a scholar with profound knowledge."
In a hurry, it was difficult for them to quickly revise a new version. Not only must it satisfy Zhu Houcong's wishes, but it must also take into account the seriousness of the imperial edict.
Wei Bin knelt under the throne and said sincerely: "I would like to thank Your Majesty for your mercy."
Zhu Houcong glanced at him indifferently: "I'm not doing it all for you. Besides, I didn't let them delete what should be changed. You'd better think about how to make up for it. Foreign ministers are not so easy to dismiss."
"Your Majesty is wise, I understand..." Wei Bin stood up and sighed in his heart.
Even Yang Ting and the others were retreating steadily. Wei Bin and the others no longer dared to have extravagant hopes. They just wanted to save their lives.
His Majesty was unstoppable in the palace today. Not only did Queen Mother Zhang understand his methods, but Wei Bin and the others also knew that without the three of them, they had no room to maneuver.
Queen Mother Zhang was no match for him, so why did the palace need old people like them? As for confronting foreign ministers, the new king must use new people.
"Use the seal and let's get started."
Zhu Houcong sat on the throne and looked far away at the honor guards and officials already standing inside and outside the palace.
Honglu Temple requested the enthronement edict to be issued.
The head of the Hanlin Academy handed over the imperial edict to the officials of the Ministry of Rites.
The commander of Jin Yiwei received the edict at Meridian Gate and ceremoniously placed it in Yun Yuzhong.
The edict of enthronement slowly arrived at Chengtianmen and was handed over to the ceremonial officer responsible for reading the edict.
The time drum sounded again, and the specially selected loud-voiced ceremony official recited loudly.
"Ascension ceremony, kneel down!"
"The Emperor is entrusted with the destiny of Heaven, and the edict says: I inherit the destiny of the Emperor and Heaven, and I rely on the blessings of the saints..."
"... He regards next year as the first year of Jiajing, a general amnesty for the world, and the beginning of reform with the people..."
The officials kneeling outside Chengtian Gate were all listening quietly to the terms that were read out one after another.
Everyone knows that this time the enthronement edict seems to be different!
When Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, among the 43 new policies in the imperial edict, 13 were about amnesty and clemency, 23 were about clarifying the situation of powerful people disturbing the people and using money sparingly, and 7 were about recommending talents and opening up channels of expression, etc.
This time, the edict contains several major categories and several small decrees. Many of the words are very strange, and it does not clearly explain what regulations will be implemented.
It seems that the scope of the New Deal is unprecedented, but it is not clear. This is clearly a sign that it has not yet been agreed upon.
How could the elders draft such an edict? Or does the emperor have other ideas?
No matter what they thought, the coronation ceremony was carried out meticulously, link by link.
After the ceremony, the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty finally officially ascended the throne.
