"Besides, there is one more thing."
After talking about the affairs of the Zongren Mansion, Zhu Yunxu suddenly said again.
He just looked at ease.
Zhu Xi didn't care either, just treating it as a minor matter that he wanted to discuss with him.
But I never thought about the next moment.
Zhu Yunzhen's words were so shocking that Zhu Xi was so frightened that he almost spit out the wine he just drank!
"The Spring Festival is coming, and Grandpa Huang will not come back this year from Yangshan."
"I want to leave the matter of officiating the Spring Festival to my third uncle."
Zhu Yunxuan said very plainly.
But these words really scared Zhu Xi.
Opposite him, Zhu Xi looked panicked, and for a moment he didn't know what Zhu Yunzhen meant.
Since ancient times, whenever the Spring Festival approaches, there has been a very complicated ceremony to worship heaven and ancestors.
As usual, it is usually presided over by the emperor himself.
However, ministers can also do it for them.
Now that Lao Zhu is away and Taisun is in charge of the country, this matter naturally falls on Zhu Yunxian.
Moreover, this is also the first ceremony for worshiping heaven and ancestors hosted by Zhu Yunxuan.
Logically speaking, it is also an important moment to declare one's rule and increase one's authority.
But at such an important moment, Zhu Yunzhen actually gave it to Zhu Xi!
This makes Zhu Xi inevitably think more...
After all, who knows whether Zhu Yunxuan really wants to do it, or is just pretending to want it, just to test it?
Zhu Xi could not guess Zhu Yunzhen's thoughts at all.
In my heart, I was more and more impressed by Zhu Yunzhen's ability.
"This...how can we be responsible for officiating the Spring Festival?" Zhu Xi naturally refused.
But Zhu Yunzhen persuaded him with sincere words: "Third uncle, this matter belongs to you."
Officiating is incredibly complex and cumbersome.
And who will be the officiant has no impact on Zhu Yunxuan's position.
Anyway, Lao Zhu is still here.
The reason why Zhu Yunzhen passed this matter to Zhu Xi was simply because the job of officiating the priest was too cumbersome and tiring!
In this era, worshiping heaven and ancestors is naturally the most important event.
So there are a lot of rules.
When offering sacrifices to heaven, you need to hold a jade ritual vessel called "Gui" with the upper tip and lower part in your hand.
For the young Zhu Yunzhen, wearing a thick mian robe and holding the 'Gui' all the time would be exhausting...
And before the sacrifice, the chief priest must check the animals and utensils used for the sacrifice, and there must be no defects.
Also make sure everything is properly arranged.
On the day of worshiping heaven and ancestors, the person in charge of the ceremony needs to start at dawn.
A total of nine procedures are completed in order to welcome the gods, lay jade and silk, enter the shrine, make the first gift, make the second gift, make the final gift, scatter beans, send off the gods, and look forward to the fire.
During the sacrifice process, the emperor should lead the civil and military officials to kneel down and salute continuously.
The salute officer sang loudly, and people followed suit.
Under the singing of the praise officer, music was played, and then the Jiao She ordered to light the firewood on the burning altar and burn the sacrifices. As the smoke floated up, the sacrifices were sent to heaven.
Beyond that, every etiquette is very cumbersome.
Taking the first gift as an example, the officiant needs to go to the throne, pick up the gui, wash the robe, wipe the robe, hand it over to the deacon, and then take out the gui.
Then he went to the wine and libation place, picked up the wine, handed over the wine to the steward, and then took out the wine.
But it's not over yet.
When the bell sounds, the chief priest still needs to kneel down in front of the shrine, hold the gui, offer incense, offer wine, pay homage to the emperor, and present the gui.
After the blessing officer has finished reading the blessing text, the officiant will bow down, stand up, pray again, and then return to his original position.
This has just completed one of the etiquettes!
Zhu Yunzhen's scalp went numb just by looking at that long process.
This is really tiring!
And Zhu Yunzhen didn't think this thing was really useful.
Rather than spending so much effort on this, Zhu Yunxu still wanted to care about the progress of various reforms in the Ming Dynasty.
Only this is the fundamental way to truly make Ming Dynasty stronger!
That's why Zhu Yunzhen insisted on leaving the matter of officiating the ceremony to Zhu Xi.
But Zhu Xi didn't know this.
He couldn't guess Zhu Yunzhen's thoughts at all. He could only watch Zhu Yunzhen plead again and again, but he really didn't mean to frame him.
Only then did he reluctantly accept it.
But deep down in his heart, he felt that he could not understand Zhu Yunzhen more and more.
Why is Zhu Yunxian so confident?
You even dare to leave the ceremony of worshiping heaven and ancestors to him? !
Naturally, he didn't know... Zhu Yunzhen's greatest confidence in leaving these matters to him was, in the final analysis, because he was about to die...
Before you die, if you don't use your spare energy, leave all the work you can do to him.
Squeeze out all remaining value.
Isn't Zhu Yunzhen stupid?
I am used to fighting with Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi, so it is rare to encounter a "non-threatening" vassal king like Zhu Xi.
Of course Zhu Yunzhen must learn how to squeeze out the last bit of Zhu Xi's use value!
Zhu Xi was sent away.
Zhu Yunzhen was the only one left in the imperial study.
In a blink of an eye, one year is almost over.
Zhu Yunzhen's mood fluctuated. He was not only thinking about everything that had happened in the past year, but also looking forward to his first Spring Festival in Ming Dynasty.
In the past life, the flavor of the year was getting weaker and weaker.
This year has been getting more and more boring.
It even made Zhu Yunxuan not feel that he was celebrating the New Year.
But now we have returned to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxuan actually started to look forward to it.
I don’t know what the Spring Festival in the early Ming Dynasty is like.
Think of this.
Zhu Yunzhen summoned his personal maid to inquire about the matter.
"Do you know if there is anything interesting to do during the Spring Festival in the capital in recent years?"
"Is it hot or lively?"
The little maid held her jade-white chin with a green-white finger.
He tilted his head and thought for a long time.
Said: "Your Highness, my maid heard that in the early years, the Spring Festival in the capital was not so lively."
"But it's different now."
“Every year during the Spring Festival, there is a lantern show to watch!”
"There is also the Chenghuang Temple Fair on the first day of the first lunar month. There is an endless stream of people coming and going, and there are all kinds of rare treasures. It can't be too lively!"
"There are also major theater troupes performing at the temple fair, which attracts a lot of people."
"It's just..."
The maid said with a guilty conscience: "There are only five days during the Spring Festival... I haven't had enough fun..."
Zhu Yunxuan was stunned for a moment.
His mouth widened slightly, and he was a little surprised. He really didn't expect that the entire Spring Festival would last only five days!
This... is comparable to the seven days of later generations!
But when I think about Lao Zhu's workaholic, and the fact that throughout the Hongwu years, he had very few holidays.
Not even a monthly holiday!
There are not a few days of rest in a year, but it becomes reasonable again...
After all, the leaders of the Ming Dynasty refused to rest and worked day and night. How could the subordinates dare to rest?
Thinking about it this way, it is really reasonable to only have five days during the Spring Festival.
But this is not a long-term solution after all.
Coming from a later generation, he understood the relationship between working hours and work efficiency.
It does not mean that the longer you work, the better the results will be.
Sometimes taking a break is often for better work.
Wait until next year, maybe he will have to disobey Lao Zhu again.
Let the people of Ming Dynasty have a good annual holiday!
It would be best to launch some official activities. In Zhu Yunxuan's mind, wouldn't this be far better than the meaningless formality of worshiping heaven and ancestors?
Not only can it increase people’s happiness.
It can also stabilize people’s hearts.
"Please think of more activities in the palace this year."
"Let the palace be lively and lively."
"Don't let it be as dead as before."
Every year during the New Year, people in the palace are homesick, and the lively atmosphere inside the palace is not as lively as outside the palace.
The maid quickly knelt down and saluted: "Your Highness, you are considerate of us slaves."
"This servant thanked Your Highness for them!"
I felt even more grateful to Zhu Yunxuan in my heart.
Also more loyal.
…
Time flies, time flies by like a white horse.
Just suddenly.
Suddenly there was a touch of red in the capital, and every household was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations.
Even the noise in the streets.
It is also three points larger than usual.
In the blink of an eye... the Spring Festival is here...
Snow falls...
The new year is coming...
(End of chapter)
