.Because they had to go to the palace to celebrate the New Year the next day, they ate flat food at Xujie's mansion, and Zhang Juzheng and Shen Mo said goodbye and went back to rest.

According to regulations, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the emperor would accept congratulations from all officials in the main hall of the Forbidden City. Before accepting congratulations, he would lead the prince to Fengxian Hall in the middle of the night. Fengci Hall worshipped his ancestors. He would almost perform rituals all day long. The whole ceremony was very hard, but even with the idle nature of Emperor Jiajing, he would not dare to neglect any.

And this day is very special for many people. Jiajing will return to the Forbidden City that has been missing for a long time on this day; his sons will also see the emperor's father who has been away for a long time on this day; for all officials, this is also the only chance to see the emperor wearing a dragon robe in a year.

For the internal supervisors, this is the busiest time of the year. Because Emperor Jiajing lives in Xiyuan all year round, and most of the palace people followed, the Forbidden City is inevitably desolate and dilapidated. But the ceremony on this day is related to the face of the Tian family, how can you make it easy? So a few days before the New Year, the general manager of the Zhidian Supervisor had to come back from Xiyuan to organize people, starting from Chengtian Gate and cleaning until Jianji Hall. After it was cleaned, the general manager of the official station came over again. The royal family's all-in-one guilds, ceremonial guards, lamps and tents were arranged in full, and many curtains were used to cover the disrepaired areas. In short, the surface of the donkey manure and eggs was light, so that people could not see any destruction.

On New Year's Eve, Shangbaojian transported the emperor's throne from the inner trunk, set up a seat in the Huangji Hall, and set up a treasure table to the east of the imperial throne and the incense table to the south of the Danbi. The Jiaofang Office wanted to set up Zhonghe Shaolei to the east of the Huangji Hall, and these furnishings faced south and north, representing the emperor's intention to accept worship of all people.

When all the decorations were stopped, it was dawn of New Year's Day, and the palace people were almost exhausted. Huang Jin, who was in charge of the entire ceremony, wiped his sweat and said with a panting face: "Why are you so busy? You almost missed a big deal.

The eunuch beside him said: "It's time to be born and familiar. We're not going to miss it now."

"Well Huang Jin shook his head and sighed: "When my ancestors were there, everything was orderly. I could finish it after the New Year's Eve, and I didn't delay the New Year's Eve dinner." As he said that, his eyes turned red and said: "I am really unfilial. When I got busy, I forgot about his old man. I don't know what's going on now. Do you have any water and snacks in Changping? Is there any silver silk charcoal burning or silk quilt covering?" The fat cheeks shook and burst into tears.

The people around him quickly burst into tears, saying that Huang's godfather was too kind and righteous, and for a moment he was so sad that he shouted loudly: "What's the mourning during the New Year?"

When everyone saw that it was Eunuch Chen who limped, he hurriedly lowered his head and was so afraid that he dared not speak out. After the confinement period expired, Chen Hong returned to his original position. The Sili Supervisor and the Admiral and Eunuch of the East Factory, and he temporarily held the Emperor Yuwang. He was only higher than Huang Jin, the Chief Secretary of the Sili Supervisor and Eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, but Huang Jin was not afraid of him.

The two of them are now competing in the inner court, and their relationship is even more powerful. Chen Hong hates Li Fang to make him like this, so he naturally takes his anger against Huang Jin. Huang Jin hates Chen Hong to take Li Fang to Xiu Ji Rang, and he wants to record the person surnamed Chen. The two are so arrogant, fighting openly and secretly, and bringing in all the twenty-four yamen in the inner court. The struggle is no less complicated than that of the outer court.

At this moment, Huang Jin stared at Chen Hong with a pair of small eyes and said, "Chen Crack, what's wrong with you here? What's your mourning?"

"Hmph, Chen Hong hates others calling him a cripple, but he is really lame. His face twitched a few times and said in a dark voice: "I'm here to pass on the master's oral order, is it also a mourning call?"

Huang Jin had no choice but to kneel in front of him and said, "I listen to the order."

Chen Hong smiled proudly and said, "This is almost the same." Listen, the emperor has ordered his two high princes, King Yu and King Jing, to wait for the carriage in Jianji Hall.

Jianji Hall is one of the three main halls of the palace. It was originally called Jinshen Hall, but later changed its name by Jiajing, but its function has not changed. It is a place where the emperor went to court to organize his appearance and rest for a short time.

Huang Jin was furious when he heard this, and jumped up and said, "Okay, you dare to fool me. It is obviously not the will I passed on to me, but I have to kneel down to accept it."

"Did I say it was passed on to you?" Chen Hong sneered: "I am a stupid pig, but I still feel like I blame others for this."

You." In terms of quarrel, Huang Jin is not Chen Hong's opponent. He was so angry that his face flushed, and said, "The two high men are resting in the Palace of the Heart, why don't you go to the inner palace, but instead pour it out?

"Is that so?" Chen Hong said suddenly, "I'll come out and ask where the two high men are resting." He said, bowing and said, "Thank you, I'm going."

Unexpectedly, Huang Jin turned angry and smiled and said, "Go, go, go quickly."

Before Chen Hong understood, he turned around and limped and walked two steps. He felt something was wrong. When he looked back, he saw Huang Jin looking at his legs with a smile on his face and said, "Go ahead, don't fall down, it turns out that this guy is laughing at me sincerely. Chen Hong was so angry that he could only walk on Qingyun Road, so he had to drag his legs away in a mess.

"What are you looking at?" Seeing Chen Hong walking away, Huang Jin also pulled down his face and scolded the little eunuch who was watching the fun around him and said, "No matter how hard it is to work, you will break your legs!" The people below laughed and scattered.

Huang Jin said that Chen Chuan Er Ercang was cooked by Chen Chuan. Because the Forbidden City was divided into the outer palace and the inner palace, the outer palace is the farthest from the inner palace gate, the Qianqing Gate, and the Jianji Hall is the closest to the inner palace. After passing the Qianqing Gate, there are the three main halls of the inner court, the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Hall and the Kunning Palace, respectively, "the Emperor's Bedroom, the Emperor's Bedroom, and the Queen's Bedroom.

On the west side of the Qianqing Palace is the place where Emperor Jiajing built for himself. It was called the "Heart Palace". His two sons rested in the room last night and this morning. King Jing was in the East Warm Pavilion and King Yu was in the West Warm Pavilion.

The two princes can sleep in the palace in this one night. You can imagine how they feel. They can't close their eyes all night, put on their clothes, and look east, and you can see the roof of the Qianqing Palace. Isn't their lifelong pursuit just to sleep there?

It is said that Emperor Jiajing should have rested there, but "the change in the Renyin Palace left him an indelible psychological shadow. As long as he closed his eyes in the Qianqing Palace, Yang Jinying, Cao Duanfei and others rushed towards him and demanded his life. The young emperor was so scared that he moved to the West Garden in a hurry. So although he would occasionally return to the Forbidden City, it was limited to the outer court. Even if he wanted to stay overnight, he was still building a paradise and would never step into the inner palace.

"Oh," King Yu said in his heart: "If I return to the Forbidden City in the future, how much will it cost to repair it?"

"Fuck" King Jing cursed inwardly: "If the old guy doesn't want to live, I'll go back to the west quickly!

Although they have different ideas, they are actually fantasizing about the same thing.

After the fifth o'clock in the morning, the two of them knew that Xunhai went outside the palace gate to wait for all officials, and then went to Huangji Palace to celebrate their birthday. They turned back to the warm pavilion, washed their faces and changed their clothes, and appeared in front of the Yangxin Palace with a grace that had not been seen outside the palace.

Under the thirty-six palace lanterns, the two brothers were meeting each other. King Yu was snorting and wanted to say something, but King Jing snorted coldly and walked out of the palace proudly. King Yu sighed, and also raised his face, following him out of the palace.

The two were about to carry the chariot when Chen Hong appeared there and passed the oral order from Emperor Jiajing to them.

When the two heard this, they were excited that their father asked them to go to Jianji Hall to wait for the ceremony, which was the first time they had with them! They only vaguely remembered that when the prince was there, the emperor took the prince to court. Then for more than 20 years, of course, most of the time, they were "who were waiting in the hall with their ministers, watching the mysterious emperor, sitting on the dragon throne unattainable, and savoring the bitterness that gave Jiajing."

It is said that the ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty loved their sons very much, and they looked more like fathers than the emperors of the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties. But why did this change when we were in this wave?

Is it because "The two dragons don't meet each other, this hateful prophecy? If that's true, then I will dig the grave and whip the body with the hatred of Tao Zhongwen, and then I will vent my hatred!

However, this time it was obviously a positive signal. It seems that the father's attitude is going to be a bit gratifying.

The two princes quickly sat on the carriage and ordered the eunuchs carrying the sedan chair to hurry to Jianji Palace.

In Jianji Hall, Emperor Jiajing did not sleep all night. Yesterday, he sacrificed Emperor Xian in Fengxian Hall and Queen Mother Shengzhang in Fengci Hall. As a result, after lying down at night, he dreamed that his father and mother were asking himself, "Have the prince arranged it?" Is there anyone in our family? Don't let others rob it."

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because he dealt with his uncle's family too much. In theory, he should have been grateful to Xiaozong's family after taking over the throne from his cousin Wuzong, but it may be due to selfishness or inferiority, or it may be because of his long-lasting struggle with the ministers for the sake of succession or succession, which made him unable to face the family correctly.

So he slandered his cousin Emperor Wuzong, and tried his best to undermine his influence on his uncle Emperor Xiaozong, and never be grateful, and even deliberately ignore the sacrifices. What is even more excessive is that he slandered his only wife, Wuzong's biological mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, who helped him ascend the throne, was sloppy!

When he first ascended the throne, under pressure, he could still respect Empress Dowager Zhang as the Virgin, and dare not be any different from treating his biological mother. But over time, the difference became bigger. The care for Empress Dowager Zhang was always not timely. The palace servants assigned were mostly old, weak, sick and disabled, and were one level worse than those given to his mother. Later, he was renamed Virgin as his aunt, which some ministers couldn't stand. He was even punished by him after submitting memorials and admonishment.

The most overwhelming thing is that Empress Dowager Zhang's younger brother, Shouning Hou, committed a crime in the entire great etiquette. Emperor Jiajing, who insisted that "human ethics is greater than legal principles," this time, insisted on killing him. Empress Dowager Zhang knelt in front of Jiajing but failed to plead, but he couldn't get sick. In the end, Empress Dowager Zhang, who was in a miserable evening, died soon. Even her death did not bring her brother's life. Just the next month, Jiajing executed Shouning Hou.

Although Jiajing's behavior was not called mercy and revenge, it was definitely ungrateful and completely contrary to the values ​​of scholars and officials. Therefore, his originally inconsistent relationship with the ministers became even more rigid. However, Jiajing was cautious in his use of himself and did not think he was wrong at all. Instead, he believed that the ministers who advised him used this matter to fight back for the great etiquette and punished them more severely. From then on, the king and ministers became depressed, and the king and ministers were disloyal. This allowed a flattering person like Yan Song to benefit from it!

Jiajing was not afraid of these things at first, but as he became critically ill several times, he became more and more worried that he would suffer retribution in the future. He was worried that the throne would be taken away by other people's children and grandchildren, and he also treated him like this. He was worried that his actions might be overturned in the future and he would be criticized by the top ten. This was something he thought of as a self-deserving magic weapon, so he could never accept it, so he had been thinking about how to avoid this situation for a long time.

In fact, he knew that the key was the heirs. If his lineage had always had successors and respected him very much," just like Emperor Taizong Zhu Jie, although he was cruel to usurp the throne, because all the successors were his descendants and all received his kindness, no one revealed his shortcomings, but instead raised him to the same status as Taizu. This is a good example.

In this way, I have to change my attitude towards my son, otherwise how can I count on one of them to protect myself in the future?

So he ordered Chen Hong, who was serving outside, to call his two sons to come.

Not long after, King Yu and King Jing came and saluted respectfully to the father. They congratulated him on his new anniversary and wished him a long life. Emperor Jiajing wanted to smile at them, but he had never done this to his sons. His expression was stiff and unnatural, so he had to give up.

The two sons were extremely afraid of him and did not dare to say a word except asking Sheng'an. The rare time between father and son was so embarrassing.

In the end, Jiajing broke the silence and said, "Did you sleep well last night?"

King Yu and King Jing were flattered and said: "Very good, very good"

"Nonsense." Jiajing smiled faintly and said, "The eyes are as red as rabbits, it's strange if you sleep well."

The two of them quickly knelt down and apologized, saying, "Father, I know that I have indeed lied, but I have not slept well."

Their panic attitude made Emperor Jiajing, who was originally meant to be a joke, feel very bored and waved his hand and said, "Get up, Lian is not blamed."

The two of them stood up obediently, and both lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him.

Jiajing sighed inwardly and said to himself: Why did I give birth to such two bears? But he also knew who caused it, so he said patiently: "You have read the congratulations and gifts, and you have a commendable filial piety and comforting your heart."

The two knew that the emperor was not talking about this time, but the gifts they gave after he recovered from the serious illness.

I heard Jiajing comment: "Zhener's congratulations are well written, and the words are very beautiful. The words are true and the love is deep. I like the couplet very much. Is it Master Yuan taught you?"

King Jing Zhu Zaitin was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded, "Father, the wise and wise. It was indeed written under the guidance of Master Yuan. He said that writing articles should be sincere and sincere, and he would write whatever he had in his heart."

Jiajing smiled faintly and said, "No," and looked at King Yu Zhu Zaili and said, "Lier's Taoist robe is also very attentive. It is rare that you can imagine that you can see the couplets of embroidering the Taoist robe. Every needle and thread are used. Although it was not done by you, your intention has already arrived." After hearing his father's approval, Zhu Zaili's tears fell from tears.

King Jing felt extremely unhappy when he saw that the limelight was taken away again, and his face became a little unpleasant.

Who is the Emperor Jiajing? Through the reaction of the two, they have some understanding of their current personalities. But today is the first day of the first lunar month, and they only spoke auspicious words, so he did not do anything to anyone, but said calmly: "Let's have a meal with you." The ingredients are finer; and donkey-headed meat is also a must-eat, because donkey-headed meat is commonly known as ghosts, so the palace calls eating donkey-headed meat a ghost, and it is said that you can avoid being sneaky for a year.

After picking a dumpling and taking a bite, Jiajing suddenly smiled and said, "Lian ordered the people in the imperial kitchen to wrap a small amount of silver in these water snacks. Let's learn from ordinary people, and see who can eat it. Which one can eat it, and Lian will satisfy his little wish." The two sons glared at each other, as if saying, "You want to..."

Jiajing ate a few dumplings and put down the ivory chopsticks. He saw two thin monkey-like sons who tried their best to stuff dumplings into his mouth. He sighed inwardly, "It's not a big deal."

In the end, Zhu Zaizhen was lucky. When he ate the last few dumplings, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he spit out a corner of silver from his mouth. He was overjoyed and said, "Father, I have eaten it!"

Zhu Zaili panted in disappointment, covered his stomach and said to the palace maid next to him, "Give me a bowl of dumplings and coffee." He vowed that he would not delay dumplings for at least three years.

"What reward do you want?" Jiajing looked at Zhu Zaili and said.

Zhu Zaixia was holding dumpling soup and glaring at Zhu Zaizhen, he could guess what request this guy would make.

Not surprisingly, Zhu Zaitin was holding his stomach and knelt down with difficulty and said, "Son Master, please ask my father to give the name of Hutou?" Hutou was the nickname he gave his son. It is said that it means tiger head and tiger head, but some people say it is the term Paijiu. Zhu Zaitin looked sad and said, "That poor baby is almost one year old. He has not had a big size yet and cannot enter the genealogy."

Emperor Jiajing pondered..."
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