Chapter 352 Long live Xiaolings accession to the throne
Under the order of Yan Wogong, the Nanjing Qing army abandoned the defense of the outer city, abandoned the eighteen outer city gates, and retreated to the thirteen inner city gates.
The process went smoothly, and the Ming army did not take advantage of the situation to attack.
On that day, the Ming army took over the eighteen gates of Waiguo City. Early the next morning, Zhu Yihai led a large number of civil and military officers and soldiers from the imperial camp and marched along the Qinhuai River by boat.
Along the way, they passed Dingzhun Gate, Qingliang Gate, Shicheng Gate, Sanshan Gate, Shuimen, Jubao Gate, Shuimen, Tongji Gate, Zhengyang Gate and other city gates. The Qing troops on the city were very nervous. They stood on the city wall holding their breath and being cautious.
He watched the Ming army pass by.
From the west of the city, around the south of the city, to the Zhengyang Gate in the south of the city, the boat landed and headed for the Xiaoling Mausoleum on Zhongshan Mountain.
Pass by the Shanchuan Altar and enter the sacrificial area. This is a place where the Ming Dynasty offered sacrifices to Tai Sui, wind, cloud, thunder, rain, Five Mountains, Five Towns, Four Seas, Zhongshan, Tianshou Mountain, as well as the mountains and rivers of Gyeonggi, and the City God.
Then go to the Great Sacrifice Altar. The Ming Dynasty worshiped heaven and earth together. Worship activities for heaven and earth were held at the Temple of Heaven Circle Mound outside Zhengyang Gate. This is a two-story circular building with nine steps on each side.
More than half a year after the fall of Nanjing, this place is still well preserved.
Zhu Yihai led hundreds of officials to offer three animal sacrifices to the emperor and the empress.
During the sacrifice, Yan Wogong in Zhengyang Gate specially asked Qian Qianyi to represent the Qing court and also sent sacrifices.
After offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, continue heading north to the outside of Chaoyang Gate.
Yan Wo Gong sent people to prepare a lot of wine and food in advance for the Ming army to eat, and also sent many animal sacrifices.
"Your Highness, there are still forty-five miles from Chaoyang Gate to the northwest imperial wall of Xiaoling from the Xiaoling Gate. It turns out that there are more than 5,000 troops stationed to protect the tomb. The pavilions in the cemetery are connected with each other, and there are pine trees and seas. Thousands of people are raised to live a long life, and deer are roaring in the meantime.
, the momentum is extraordinary." Qian Qianyi, as the envoy to the north, accompanied him all the way.
"What about now?" Zhu Yihai asked.
The Xiaoling Mausoleum is the joint burial mausoleum of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma. Empress Ma died in the fifteenth year of Hongwu and was buried in Xiaoling in September. It was named Xiaoruan. One theory is that Empress Ma was given the posthumous title Xiaoci, and the word "filial piety" was taken from the posthumous title.
Filial piety means governing the world.
The entire Xiaoling Mausoleum was built, using hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. It took more than 30 years to complete. It is grand in scale and famous in architecture. It was built on Zhongshan outside Chaoyang Gate and was surrounded by the outer city wall.
Most of the seventy temples in the Southern Dynasties were surrounded by the Xiaoling Forbidden Garden.
From the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing has always been the fundamental place of ancestors and is highly respected. There are three fixed major sacrifices and five minor sacrifices every year. Whenever major national events occur, ministers and relatives must be sent to pay tribute.
At that time, Zhu Di launched an army to quell Jingnan and captured Nanjing. Emperor Jianwen did not know where he was going. The ministers came forward to persuade him to advance. After Zhu Di declined twice, he went to pay homage to Xiaoling and then formally succeeded to the throne.
Nowadays, although the city of Nanjing has not yet been conquered, the Qing army has been forced to retreat into the inner city, the outer city has been opened, Zhu Yihai led the Northern Expedition armies, and the imperial camp civil and military personnel came to visit Xiaoling, which is also of great significance.
Because the supervisor was visiting Xiaoling Mausoleum today, countless ministers had already hurriedly written out forms of persuasion.
When the King of Lu supervised the country, he also spread the word to the world, and even invited the vassals to be the first to enter the Guanzhong.
Nowadays, Zhu Yihai no longer has any vassal that can threaten his status, but this time he actually attacked Nanjing City and even paid a visit to Xiaoling Mausoleum, which makes people even more excited.
This has achieved an important achievement, and it is now clear that he will ascend the throne.
Even today, when Qian Qianyi came to accompany Zhu Yihai to visit the Ming Tomb as the envoy to the north, he secretly persuaded Zhu Yihai to enter.
This is the end of the year.
From the time Duduo led his army to Nanjing in mid-May to the end of the year when Zhu Yihai besieged Nanjing to visit Xiaoling Mausoleum, it only took half a year. More than half a year ago, Nanjing fell, and almost everyone in the Ming Dynasty despaired, pessimistically thinking that the Ming Dynasty was over.
Countless people surrendered, lived in seclusion, and many people died generously, hanging themselves, drowning, committing suicide and other martyrdoms.
Who would have thought that in just half a year, the situation in the world would have undergone such huge changes.
The King of Lu in eastern Zhejiang raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty, fought against all odds, defeated the Tartars repeatedly, and restored half of the sky. The governors, emperors, marshals, generals, etc. of the vassal vassals that had originally established themselves one after another or were supported by officials and generals are now basically all under the command of the Ming Dynasty.
Lu supervised the imperial edict, abdicated and returned to the vassal state, and supported King Lu together.
The five thousand defenders of Xiaoling Guard have disappeared, but now a more elite Northern Expedition imperial camp has arrived.
Qian Qianyi was also very emotional. If he had known that King Lu of Taizhou in eastern Zhejiang was so powerful, he would never have joined Zhao Zhilong in opening the city to welcome the captives.
"Your Highness, we, the Qing Dynasty, entered the Pass under the pretext of avenging Emperor Chongzhen. From Shanhaiguan to Beijing, then to Guanzhong, Huguang and Jiangxi, we have been chasing the intruders to avenge Emperor Chongzhen. Later, we occupied Xuhuai and entered Nanjing.
Going to Suzhou and Hangzhou also has another story."
After the Qing army entered the customs, the situation in the country was not stable. Dorgon also listened to the suggestions of many Han officials and respected the Ming to protect the mausoleum in order to win people's hearts.
For example, in May last year, Feng Quan, a great scholar, was sent to offer sacrifices to Ming Taizu and other emperors.
After Duduo entered Nanjing this year, he soon personally led his generals and ministers of the Ming Dynasty to visit the Ming Tomb and ordered the monks of Linggu Temple to repair it.
Before leaving in July, he sent two internal officials, chief and deputy, and forty people from the mausoleum to guard the Ming Tomb.
"However, due to the food shortage, many of the thousand immortal deer raised in Zhongshan Xiaoling Mausoleum were poached by the Jiangning Qing army."
Zhu Yihai nodded.
After all, Xiaoling Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Taizu and his wife, and the Tatars should protect it.
The carriages and horses moved slowly and arrived at Xiaoling.
At the foot of the mountain, in front of the long corridor, everyone got off their carriages and horses. Zhu Yihai walked along the corridor, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, all the way to the front of Xiaoling Baocheng.
Three more tributes.
In addition to the tens of thousands of civil and military officers and soldiers accompanying him, there were also nearly 100,000 fellow villagers from around Jiangning who came to watch this scene from a distance.
Lu Jianguo went to Nanjing and paid a personal visit to Xiaoling Mausoleum.
This scene made everyone feel that Ming Dynasty was alive again.
Wherever Zhu Yihai went, the people knelt down. They spontaneously helped tidy up the imperial tomb, cleared away weeds and dead trees, swept away fallen leaves, and offered the sacrifices they had brought.
Zhu Yihai offered three sacrifices of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and sprinkled a pot of Shaoxing rice wine.
Kneel down and perform three prostrations and nine kowtows.
Finally, Xu Shiqi, a bachelor, handed a memorial text to Zhu Yihai, who read it personally in front of the treasure city. This memorial text said that after the Jiashen Incident, the Ming Dynasty collapsed, the country was in great danger, Nanjing was destroyed, Hangzhou surrendered, and Tai
Zhu Yihai, the 11th generation king of Lu, the grandson of his 10th generation ancestor, responded to the danger and stood up to fight against the captives. In the past six months, he contacted loyal people from all over the world, recruited brave soldiers, stabilized the southeast, and went north to attack the captives...
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"The country is in danger, but the Zhu family still has loyal and filial sons and grandsons holding the banner, the country has collapsed, and there are still loyal and righteous people in the world who have sacrificed their lives for the country. We have raised scholars for three hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless loyal and righteous people, even the little ones who are begging for children.
Among those who died for the country, there are many more passionate men who have enlisted in the army to fight against the invaders in the Northern Expedition!"
Zhu Yihai also specially selected some lists of Nanjing martyrs in front of Taizu Treasure City.
"Gao Zhuo, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, died by suicide. He Yingrui, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, hanged himself and then committed suicide. Zhang Jie, the Minister of the Ministry of Official Affairs, hanged himself with a Buddha flag in Jiming Temple. The left deputy censor of the capital hanged himself with his concubine. Liu Chengzhi, a doctor in the Ministry of Finance, surrendered to Nanjing.
, guarding the Hubu Treasury alone, beat Zhao Zhilong away with fists.
After hearing this, Duduo, the commander-in-chief of the captivity, summoned him. Liu Chengzhi lamented that after three hundred years of supporting the country, he could not repay the imperial court with any loyalty. He wrote on the wall that the spirit of Zhongshan was so illustrious that it returned to the emperor. He wanted to protect this crown and hang himself to death.
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In addition, Huang Duanbo, the head of the Ministry of Rites, and hundreds of officials in Nanjing welcomed the surrender. Duanbo refused to go, so he was forced to write a note to him saying that Huang Duanbo, a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, was arrested by Duoduo and refused to surrender. He was imprisoned for four months. He refused to surrender despite threats and inducements, and was sentenced to death.
The poem says, Ask me where I live, Daoshan is a Taoist temple. The executioner swung his sword to the left and slashed to the left, but he still shouted. The executioner was frightened and his hands trembled, so he abandoned the sword and ran away. Another executioner was replaced, and he slashed to the right with the sword, but he did not die.
Duan Bo shouted sternly, "My heart is not dead, my head cannot be cut off, you can stab my heart."
The third executioner came up and stabbed his chest with a knife through his heart before he died, but he still stood unyielding.
Another example was Xu Depu, a commoner from Rugao. On the day the Qing army entered Nanjing, he had tattoos on his chest, saying, "You are worthy of our dynasty." He also tattooed on his arms, "I was born as a man of the Ming Dynasty and died as a ghost of the Ming Dynasty." He died cursing the Tartars.
The martyrs of Nandu's dead country ranged from ministers and ministers to living members and even beggars. There are hundreds of records.
The spirit of Emperor Taizu Gao rests in peace in heaven. Although the Ming Dynasty has suffered from internal and external troubles for the past three hundred years, it still has people's hearts. Now the tenth generation grandson Yihai will hold high the banner of the sun and moon of the Ming Dynasty, revive the Ming Dynasty, relieve the people from the fire and war, and restore peace to the world!"
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After the memorial inscriptions were recited, they were burned in front of the city.
More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians gathered around Baocheng Mausoleum and knelt down and wept, the sound of which could be heard for miles.
Xu Shiqi, a bachelor, came forward and knelt down to ask the governor to ascend the throne.
All the civil and military officials knelt down to persuade him to come forward.
It is indeed very appropriate that Zhu Yihai succeeded to the throne in front of Xiaoling in Nanjing. When Zhu Yihai established himself as a supervisory state, the situation was complicated at the time, but now that it has been accepted by the public, there is no need to continue to call himself a supervisory state.
He had already ascended the throne, and he had also changed his name to rule the world and command the resistance against the captives.
These days, the orders to persuade people to advance are like snowflakes, and the generals of the imperial camp are also taking turns to persuade them to advance.
Zhu Yihai stood in front of the tall Xiaoling Treasure City, watching the countless soldiers and civilians kneeling and calling.
Looking at this scene, he finally nodded.
Because Zhu Yihai planned to use Nanjing as bait and did not plan to enter the city for the time being, he simply planned to ascend the throne in Xiaoling.
Today, Zhu Yihai was also worshiped at the Shanchuan Altar and the Great Sacrifice Altar. At this time, the atmosphere was in place, and it was directly located on the Minglou above the square city of Xiaoling.
The edict said:
Our country is blessed by Tian Hongzuo, which brings prosperity to the world, ensures great success, and promotes prosperity. Since the Emperor Long Fei laid the cauldron, the history of boundless fortunes has been foretold!
I have inherited the vassal uniform and moved to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The ministers and people have jointly promoted the succession and traveled with me. Please correct your title.
I temporarily took charge of the country, took charge of everything, commanded the imperial camp, and led the Northern Expedition. I stabilized the south and severely attacked the Tartars. I wrote many letters to urge the troops to advance, but refused to accept the offer.
On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, I would like to inform the Tiandi Ancestral Temple that the emperor is located in Nandu.
Er Yi Miao Gong, Hezi's artifact.
Only I, the Daxing Emperor, wisely upholds the past, builds the country diligently and frugally, spends all his time in business, and hopes to achieve great results. The Huangchi is stolen, the bell is shocked, the Yanji sweeps the ground to cover the dust, the dragon rides on the sky and ascends to the mountain; the three spirits share the same
Anger, all surnames share the same hatred. I am defeated by Germany, but I leave my bow to hold it in pain. I dare to give up my salary and courage, but I am exhausted, and I vow to capture the enemy. I rely on my relatives and wise men to fight with all their strength and help the enemy.
This year is still regarded as the first year of Shaotian, the beginning of the reform of the people, and the general amnesty for the world.
If you are promoted to the rank of military attache, if there is no rank to be added, you will be promoted to the rank of military officer, and you will be given a new title. Governor, supervisor, and guardian will be given the title of official.
Those who are posthumously appointed ministers of the previous dynasty with meritorious deeds and good conduct will be asked to retain their current cabinet ministers and officials of the six departments, and those who are sent to their spouses and those who live idle will be reinstated to their posts.
Those with extenuating circumstances who are below the third grade will be interviewed at their own discretion.
Those who live in exile in various vassals should be cared for and resettled in a good manner.
Those who are over seventy years old and virtuous will be given crowns and ribbons; those who have died loyally and righteously will be given posthumous titles and temples will be built.
Juren, deputy ministers, Lin Gong, and supervisors are not allowed to block the path of virtuous people. Those who have extraordinary talents in the mountains, forests, grasslands, and swamps who can rectify times and control chaos should be recommended by the public;
If the civil and military officials in Beizhi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Liaodong refuse to join the bandits and are in the south, the civil and military officials will find out and promote them to be employed. Their students will be sent to the Tianfu School examination, and their military officers will be verified by the ministry.
Salary. If any of the guards and officials in the capital are able to return to their former ways and return to justice, their previous crimes will be forgiven; if killing the thieves is self-effective, it will be judged based on military merit.
Next year, in the second year of Shaotian, the people south of the Yangtze River will be exempted from taxes for one year, Beizhi, Shanxi, and Shaanxi will be exempted from taxes for five years, and Shandong, Henan, Huguang, and Huaiyang will be exempted from taxes for three years.
On the day when the edict arrives, it will be issued as quickly as possible; those who hide their secrets will visit them to investigate.
In the play! The macroeconomic situation is difficult, and the government of Xuanjiu is used to conquer the country;
Announce it to the world, and the envoys will hear about it.
Zhu Yihai put on the official crown dress, which had twelve dragons and twelve chapters on it. He wore a twelve-bead Yupingtian crown on his head, carried the sun and moon on his shoulders, and carried the stars on his back.
"Long live!"
The bachelors who accompanied him were the first to prostrate themselves.
Countless civil and military officials, as well as soldiers and civilians of Xiaoling knelt down to worship Shan Hu.
"Long live!"
"Long live the Ming Emperor! Long live the Ming Emperor!"
The shouts of "Long Live Long Live" continued for a long time, and the soldiers, soldiers and civilians were excited and excited. At this moment, the entire Xiaoling Mausoleum became lively.
The dark clouds that had been hanging low also dispersed, and golden light shone down.
The golden light shone on Emperor Shaotian Zhu Yihai who was on the Ming Tower, and it was even more radiant and dazzling, like a god.
Some people even looked at the light and shadow on Minglou and called Taizu to come.
Zhu Yihai's gongmian dress at this time was actually made in the late Ming Dynasty. It had large sleeves and twelve regiments of dragons and twelve chapters. It was very different from the gongmian dress in the portrait of Taizu Yurong. However, Zhu Yihai was indeed the same as Taizu.
The emperor's royal appearance is very imaginable, especially after changing into the dragon robe.
Twenty-eight-year-old Zhu Yihai, after more than half a year of fighting, his skin color has become darker, and he even has a long beard. He is very similar to the middle-aged imperial statue left by Taizu.
Even Qian Qianyi brought his entourage to pay homage and shouted long live.
Qian Qianyi knelt on the ground, prostrate himself to the ground, and couldn't help but shed tears. At this moment, he cried loudly. He didn't know whether he was crying because he and Zhao Zhilong took the lead in driving into Nanjing to welcome the Qing troops into the city six months ago, or because he was crying at this important moment.
At that time, he was still wearing the Tatar official robe, and even had the Tatar money rat tail on his head.
At this crucial moment, this moment that will forever be recorded in history, Qian Qianyi was not a minister who persuaded the Qing Dynasty to support the Qing Dynasty, but an envoy from the Qing Dynasty.
He cried with so much grief and anger that he couldn't control himself.
Zhu Yihai stood on the bright floor of Fangcheng, experiencing that unparalleled moment of excitement and excitement, and his heart was actually a little calm.
