In the last few days of September, Liu Che officially issued an edict: The Queen, please rest with me, worship heaven and earth, arrive at the ancestral temple, and honor the world. Therefore, Xin Xing Yin, Jiang Ren mother Zhou, the second generation of Long, Gai I have inner virtue. Since I came to the throne, the palace of Changqiu has been empty, and the middle palace has been vacant. This is because I have little virtue. Fortunately, I have the queen of the hall who is waiting for the afternoon, and she has the grace of Shuyuan. She embodies the etiquette of mountains and rivers. Liao consulted, Lian said it was appropriate, and the divination was done on a turtle, and the hexagram was confirmed to be Qian. The daughter of the Chen family was named the queen!
Chen Ajiao was officially registered as the queen, married into the palace, and entered the Shufang Palace.
The entire post-installation procedure only took half a day to complete.
In the past, Liu Che's emperor father established the throne more quickly - he ascended the throne on the front foot, and appointed Bo as the queen on the back foot.
The same was true when Emperor Hui married Queen Xuanping.
Speaking of which, since the Han Dynasty, Liu Che had been the queen, which took more time and more complicated procedures.
After marrying Chen Ajiao, Liu Che kept his little wife in Shufang Hall. Although he often visited her, he never spent a night in Shufang Hall.
Ajiao Chen is still too young!
Because he was about to face the annual imperial ceremony and complete his first visit to the ancestral temple of heaven and earth after ascending the throne, Liu Che really wanted to postpone it for a few more years.
But there is no other way. Sometimes people are forced to do many things and have to do them!
Dong Gong seemed to understand that Chen Ajiao was still too young, so she didn't give Liu Che any pressure on this matter. Even Guan Tao didn't have any opinions.
This made Liu Che feel relieved.
What he fears most is that Dong Gong and Guan Tao force him to sleep with Chen Ajiao.
That situation is really terrible.
After the establishment of the Queen, what followed immediately was Liu Che's first major court ceremony after he ascended the throne.
The first day of the second year of Yuande.
It was just after midnight, and there were already crowds of people and busy traffic under the North Tower of Weiyang Palace.
All the bureaucrats with more than 600 shi from each yamen of Jiuqing lined up in neat queues. Under the leadership of the chiefs of each yamen, they gathered together quietly.
There are hundreds of these people alone.
But in the past, these bureaucrats who could make the head of Guizhou tremble by stomping their feet are now as small and ordinary as a drop of water falling into the sea.
Hundreds of huge fire disks in front of Weiyang Palace were already burning brightly after midnight, and thousands of torches on the palace walls were burning all night long.
The bright firelight illuminated the entire Weiyang Palace as if it were daytime.
One after another, magnificent and extremely luxurious carriages came from all directions in Chang'an, surrounded by guards, retainers and servants, and drove to Beique.
Flag after flag was flying high on the roof of the carriage.
Shi Shiran, a nobleman with a household of thousands or even ten thousand households, got out of the carriage.
Today, since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, all the nobles, nobles, elders and ministers who still exist, no matter where their feudal states are. No matter where they are, they have all come to Chang'an and will pay homage to the Emperor today.
Some people were bored and secretly counted the cars of those noble and dignified people in the past.
Then he discovered this fact.
The longer the feudal lords are, the more they seem to stick together.
Like the heroes of Emperor Gaozu, they arrived almost at the same time.
As the vanguard, the Pingyang Hou family was the first to arrive. Then came the Prime Minister Chang Ping Hou Zhou Yafu, then the Prime Minister Gu Anhou Shen Tujia, and then Ruyin, Guangyan, Guangping, Qingyang, Beiping, Quzhou and dozens of others. Hou Wei arrived at the scene almost at the same time.
This fully shows that the heroes of Emperor Gaozu are united today.
At least, that's what it looks like on the surface.
However, most of the noble ministers after Taizong were relatives or marquises of Guiyi, and there were very few who truly relied on military merit to become princes.
Almost all of these people arrived in twos and threes, one after another intermittently, and they hugged closely with the descendants of the great ancestors, and they were very different.
If you think about it, you will soon feel relieved.
Today, except for Zhang Cang, the Marquis of Beiping, and Shen Tujia, the Marquis of Gu'an, who are still breathing heavily, the rest of the great heroes of the Great Ancestor have already been passed down to the second or even third or fourth generation.
These nobles were born into wealthy families and grew up with women's hands. Except for a few of them, the rest of them really knew neither joy nor sorrow.
Apart from playing cockfighting lackeys and playing with women, he has no other special skills.
If they don't tightly embrace the Prime Minister and the former Prime Minister who are deeply trusted by the Emperor, they will be thrown into the feudal state and title sooner or later!
This is not unfounded worry!
The great ancestor created more than 100 meritorious officials, but now only less than half of them still maintain their titles and titles!
The rest were like waves washing over the sand, being deposed as common people by successive emperors, prime ministers and court officials, and some were even involved in various rebellions without any thought of life and death, and even their incense was cut off.
Except for Liuhou and Qu Ni, who have made great contributions to the country and can be remembered by the emperors of the past dynasties, the rest will soon become passers-by once they lose their titles.
As for the heroes after Taizong, most of them were of the first or second generation. As long as they did not commit suicide, they were not in any danger.
Moreover, most of these people have their own political futures, so naturally they will not stick together to avoid being alienated by the emperor.
After the princes arrived, the originally empty Beique Palace Gate immediately became crowded.
Since the rise of the Han Dynasty, three generations of emperors have ennobled nearly three to four hundred people. Except about one-third of them have been eliminated, there are still at least two to three hundred people who are still in office.
Each of these princes has retainers, servants, guards and confidants. No matter how shabby a prince is, there will always be ten or twenty people around him to fill the scene.
Wealthy people are like the Pingyang Marquis Cao who has a great family and business. There are more than ten carriages accompanying Cao Shou, Pingyang Marquis of this generation, to the palace, accompanied by hundreds of guards, retainers, diners, and servants.
It fully demonstrates to people what it means to be a big dog owner!
The descendants of the various princes and kings were not to be left behind, and each carriage was extremely gorgeous and extravagant, decorated with rare and exotic objects from Shu County to Qilu, and from China to foreign countries.
The last person to arrive at the downstairs of Beique City was my relatives.
Zhangwu Marquis Dou Guangguo, Zhihou Bo Rongnu, and the two brothers of the Queen Mother of the East Palace arrived successively.
Looking at the countless extravagant carriages and horses in front of the palace, Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo frowned. He said calmly: "These princes are becoming more and more outrageous. I have to go and talk to the emperor about this."
We must do our best to kill the extravagant behavior of these princes!"
General Wei Qihou Dou Ying, who arrived with Dou Guangguo in the same car, could only apologize on the side.
There's nothing I can do about it. This uncle's temper has always been like this!
However, the indulgence of the princely class in the luxurious life of luxury and wealth is an irreversible process.
It is simply impossible for the princes who were born with golden keys in their mouths to understand what frugality is!
Besides, it seems that I have no such plan today!
Judging from Dou Ying's observation, today's emperor seems to have deliberately condoned the extravagant and competitive behavior of the princes.
Some time ago, Dou Ying even heard that the emperor once said to Zhao Yu, the court lieutenant who went to report the extravagance and wastefulness of the princes.
Intervene!
Just as Dou Ying was thinking about this, the road under Beique City suddenly split to both sides.
Hundreds of carriages, carrying heavy cargo, were slowly approaching.
"The planners are here!" Dou Ying took one look and knew what was going on.
At the beginning of each year, every county in the world must plan for the capital.
There are as many as ten counties in a county and as few as seven or eight counties. Each county has as many as 30,000 or 40,000 households, and as few as several thousand households.
The accounting system formulated by Zhang Cang, Marquis of Beiping, stipulated that the account books and tax details of the accounting should be detailed to each household, mu, and person.
In other words, the local officials must record every acre of land of every local household, the service status and tax payment of every Shifu population in detail on bamboo slips, and then report it to Chang'an.
Therefore, at the end of every year, a wonder will appear in the Han Dynasty.
Countless carriages set off from all over the world.
The long fleet of vehicles, some even stretching for several miles, is to ensure that the above work is completed smoothly and safely.
Local counties may even recruit hundreds of people, send hundreds of county soldiers and dozens of officials to take charge.
Throughout October and November, the Prime Minister, the Young Master, the Yushi Dafu Yamen, and thousands of officials will devote themselves to the review and review of the accounting books of counties and counties all over the world to ensure that no one is cheating.
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This year is the first year of the new king's plan after he ascends the throne, so it is even more important.
Countless bureaucrats want to leave a good impression on the new king.
What kind of impression can the emperor remember the most?
Of course it’s political achievements? The political achievements of overpowering other ministers and becoming the leader!
Therefore, this year's planning work is even more important to the world. As Dou Ying knows, in August, county officials had already sent relatives and confidants to Chang'an to lobby.
The threshold of the Princess Taoist's house was almost breached by the 'messengers' carrying all kinds of treasures.
And the hundreds of carriages loaded with ledgers in front of us are just the beginning.
In the next few days, carriages of similar size will continue to arrive at Weiyang Palace.
Eventually, the words recorded on the account books in these carriages will become the color of the official uniforms worn by local officials, and determine the size of his official seal.
Some unlucky people who are too unlucky and have no activities or insufficient activities will even get into big trouble and be found out as role models.
Well, it’s the chicken that was killed to show the monkey!
These carriages drove slowly to the foot of the North Tower. An official whose rank could not be seen clearly rode out of the group of carriages and said to the guards on the tower: "The chief planner of Qinghe County has been ordered by the governor of the county, Li Gong, to transport the various counties of Qinghe County.
The village, the pavilion, the inside and outside are thin, and they are presented to the emperor!"
Qinghe County, that is the Dou family’s home base!
The current governor of Qinghe County, Li Wen, is also a former disciple of his uncle.
Dou Ying subconsciously looked at his uncle and found that Dou Guangguo did not show any signs.
Hundreds of horse-drawn carriages loaded with bamboo slips, official documents, and details of the grain and tax in the warehouse are just one example of the annual tax and labor service in a county.
This surprised Dou Ying, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: There are so many great plans in Qinghe County. No wonder the Marquis of Beiping had to formulate a system of one big plan for three years old and one small plan for one year old.
It has been like this every year. If you have to report detailed income and expenditure to the court, I am afraid that local officials and court officials will be exhausted!
After a while, a general on the tower stuck his head out and asked loudly: "Please bring me the seal seal!"
At the same time, a bamboo basket hung by a rope was lowered from the tower.
The chief official took out the official seal letter and official documents from his arms and put them into the bamboo basket.
The bamboo basket was pulled up to the tower. There was a faint sound from the tower, which seemed to be checking official documents and seals.
Not long after, the North Tower was slowly opened, revealing the palace that was illuminated by blazing fire like daylight.
The convoy was released after being searched by the palace guards and confirmed that no weapons or dangerous goods were hidden. In the palace's Shaofu Yamen, hundreds of low-level officials were already waiting for review.
Dou Ying glanced at his uncle and found that after the carriage entered the palace, Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo showed a rare smile.
This convinced Dou Ying that Qinghe County could be the first to enter the palace this year before other counties in the world. I am afraid that his uncle had a lot of effort behind the scenes.
You know, Qinghe County is the home and base camp of the Dou family.
Since the time when the Dou family was honored, every county governor has been inextricably linked with the Dou family.
It's just that for a long time, local officials who were too close to their relatives often had poor career prospects.
The emperor of the Han family would not allow his relatives to become too powerful. Therefore, in previous years, the Dou family did not put much thought into this plan.
It seems that after the new king came to the throne, the shackles around Dou's neck seemed to be loosened a little?
Dou Ying thought to himself.
However, he was still vaguely uneasy.
Throughout the ages, the Liu emperor was best at pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
The great ancestor Liu Bang pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger, and the whale swallowed up the whole world.
Taizong Liu Heng pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger. All the veterans and ministers rushed to the street, and Jianghou Zhou Bo almost died in Tingwei's prison.
The late emperor was not a bad person. Before he ascended the throne, he was beaten in various ways by Zhang Shizhi, Zhao Wan and others, but he still looked convinced. After he ascended the throne, he immediately settled the general accounts...
Today, youth is youth.
However, judging from his various performances and political actions before and after he came to the throne, this is not a good thing!
"As expected, he is the heir designated by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and is of Liu family's blood!" Dou Ying heard this sentence from a certain former nobleman who was so ecstatic that he was raped by the emperor today.
The subtext of this statement is naturally very obvious.
Think about how Gaozu and Taizong played, and you can imagine what will happen today!
"I'm afraid this is a trap!" Dou Ying was worried in his heart.
But unfortunately, he couldn't say it.
Once he said it, it would become a direct conflict between the emperor and the Dou family.
"Maybe I'm overthinking it..." Dou Ying comforted himself in his heart: "The old Queen Mother of the East Palace is still here. Even if it goes as I expected, Your Majesty will probably use my family to establish his authority at most, but it will only lose some face..."
Thinking of this, Dou Ying felt at ease.
What are you afraid of losing face?
It’s not like the Dou family has never lost it before!
As long as the East Palace is still there.
After losing face, the emperor must fully compensate the Dou family in other aspects.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Dou family was buried in a big pit by Emperor Taizong and lost all face. However, the final compensation not only allowed the Dou family to make up for all the losses, but also reaped benefits several times the loss.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the tolerance of the uncle in front of him and his deceased uncle was crucial for Dou to be where he is today!
After all the carriages from Qinghe County entered the palace, some white bellies were faintly revealed in the eastern sky.
"It's clear!" Dou Ying adjusted his clothes and made final preparations for the great ceremony.
According to the Han family system, the great court ceremony is that during Pingming (about after 5 o'clock in the morning), those who come to see you will be treated with rites, and they will be led into the palace gate.
All civil and military officials and noble ministers will begin to enter the palace one by one according to their rank and title.
In the palace, chariots, cavalry, infantry, guards, officers and ministers will be displayed. From the palace gate to the Xuanshi Hall, countless military flags will be set up along the way to show the emperor's power.
When they arrive in front of the Xuanshi Palace, they will be divided into different orders according to civil and military affairs, and they will be guided by the etiquette officer to enter the palace next time.
The whole process will last for an hour or even longer, and the subsequent court meeting will last all day. Except for the court banquet in the evening, the participating officials will have almost no time to rest. This has a great impact on the bladder, intestines and health of the person.
It's a huge test.
Before arriving, Dou Ying had already eaten and drank enough and had completed excretion, so he was ready for today's day's battle.
However, noble relatives like his uncle Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo did not have to do this.
When the time comes, the Empress Dowager will find a time and an excuse to call Marquis Zhang Wu to the East Palace.
In addition, other veteran ministers, such as the former prime minister Gu Anhou Shen Tujia, the internal historian Tian Shu, and the former Taizhong doctor Shi Fen, all received this treatment.
This can be regarded as a humanized part of the Han Dynasty regime. Care and preferential treatment will be given to senior ministers who are older and have worked hard in these aspects.
Just as Dou Ying was thinking this, all the gates of Beique Palace suddenly opened, and the visitors dressed in crimson clothes lined up and walked out of the palace gate.
The grand court ceremony of the second year of Yuande finally began. (To be continued...) r1292
