At the beginning of the new year, everything is renewed.
The new emperor ascends the throne and the empire is inherited.
It's not yet dawn when we camp in Xiangshan in the western suburbs, and the festive atmosphere of New Year's Eve has not dissipated. Last night, fireworks were set off in Beijing for nearly a night, and the sky was full of fireworks.
Just after midnight, everyone in the capital, from the princes and nobles to the people at dawn, rushed to open the door and set off firecrackers to kick off the New Year.
At this time, the sky is getting slightly brighter, the sound of firecrackers is getting loud again, and every family, old and young, get up early to welcome the New Year.
Everyone put on new clothes to celebrate the New Year.
Zhu Yihai also got up early. Today is the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. As the supreme emperor, he also has to go to celebrate, so he cannot delay the auspicious time.
Concubines Chen Taihuang and Ruan Taihuang came to pay their respects with their concubines, followed by a group of excited young princes and princesses who got up earlier than the Emperor.
The palace attendants brought the clothes that had been ironed for morning sex.
They prepared a dress for the Supreme Emperor, a crown suit.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang established a system that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty must wear specific clothes on specific occasions. There were a total of fourteen sets of clothes, including dragon robes, regular clothes, crown clothes, armor, etc., which corresponded to various occasions that the emperor needed to participate in throughout his life.
Zhu Yihai is a person who does not adhere to the ancestral system very much. He usually does not dress so politely.
But today is a special day.
He still asked the palace to put him into this extremely solemn crown robe.
Xuan robe, red jacket, red stockings, twelve pearls, a flat crown, and twelve chapters of the sun, moon, and stars.
The black clothes are woven with six chapters: the sun and moon are on the two shoulders, stars and mountains are on the back, and dragons and Chinese insects are on the two sleeves, three on each sleeve.
The lower garment is the color of the setting sun, yellow with red in the middle. It is woven with four chapters, divided into four rows: fire, Zongyi, algae are two rows, rice, black and black are two rows.
On her feet are red shoes and scarlet socks.
There are twelve bead baskets on the front and back of Pingtian Crown. Each basket contains twelve colorful jade beads, arranged in the order of yellow, red, green, white, red, black and green. Each of them is the best jade beads and is extremely valuable.
Knee coverings, leather belts, large belts, and jade belts, all put on.
Twelve jade beads, twelve chapter patterns, this number of twelve is the most noble number of the emperor. Below the emperor, the crown prince has nine Yuzhu patterns of five colors.
The prince has eight chapters and eight chapters, the prince and his son have eight chapters and seven chapters, and the prince has seven chapters and five chapters, all of which are python patterns.
If the king of a foreign vassal grants a title to a county king, he will be given five chapters of service.
There are no crowns and robes for those below the king.
"Your Majesty is so majestic." Wang Sangyu, who was aside, saw Zhu Yihai put on the imperial robes for the first time, putting them on one after another, which actually gave her an unspeakable feeling of admiration.
Zhu Yihai looked at himself in the mirror and felt that this outfit was a bit too grand and cumbersome. It was not very comfortable to wear, and the red and black colors were not his favorite, especially the black color of the top.
Black with red in the middle, and the hazel color of the lower skirt is yellow with red in the middle. This color can be said to be low-key and meaningful, or it can be said to be too deep.
The shoes on my feet are from the Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago. Paired with those sultry red socks, they are really uncomfortable.
On such a cold first day of the first lunar month, you should wear a pair of high-top deerskin boots or lambskin boots, paired with long wool socks for comfort.
As soon as Pingtian Guan was put on, there was a bead curtain in front of his eyes. Twelve strings of beads were dangling in front of him, blocking his sight. There were also twelve strings behind his head.
However, this is the most solemn set among the fourteen sets of ceremonial clothes of the Ming Emperor. It was worn only when he ascended the throne and held sacrifices. Usually, it was a robe, dragon robe, regular clothes, etc.
"Let's go, the emperor is still waiting for me to crown him."
The new emperor should have risen by now and led all the civil and military officials to the Circular Mound Altar to perform the ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven. Then he went to the Ancestral Temple to offer sacrifices to his ancestors and various gods. He even sent people to Nanjing in advance to offer sacrifices to the Xiaoling Mausoleum.
After the emperor's sacrifice is completed, the imperial city will ring the bell for the enthronement ceremony.
The bell has not yet sounded, indicating that the new emperor's sacrificial ceremony has not yet been completed.
As the emperor who abdicated the throne, Zhu Yihai did not need to attend these ceremonies, but he needed to attend an important ceremony, which was to crown the new emperor.
When Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the country and ascended the throne, no one abdicated the throne for him, so he could only set up a golden chair and put on the crown robes he designed himself when offering sacrifices to the Queen, and then took the chair from the chair.
Put on this set of coronation clothes to complete your coronation ceremony.
But now that Zhu Yihai has taken the initiative to abdicate and pass the throne to his son, it is natural that he must complete the coronation ceremony himself.
Except for the emperor, no one else has this qualification.
If there is no Supreme Emperor, then it will be the same as Zhu Yuanzhang. If it is left empty, it is equivalent to the imperial power being granted by heaven.
Zhu Yihai can just go directly to Fengtian Hall.
"Dang!~"
The majestic bell rang, melodious and could be heard far away, even at the Xiangshan Palace in the western suburbs.
"The enthronement ceremony has begun!"
"Let's go!"
Zhu Yihai stood up, followed by countless people in the palace.
He was going to coronate the new emperor, and all the princes also changed into their crown clothes and went to watch the ceremony.
Concubine Chen Taihuang and Concubine Ruan Taihuang were now promoted to the title of Concubine Taihuang and Concubine Taihuang. They led a group of concubines from the Sixth Palace of the East and West to pay homage to the new Emperor's Middle Palace.
The gorgeous gold root car is ready.
The carriage is pulled by twelve golden Dawan horses, each of which is a Dawan blood horse donated from the Dawan Khanate in the Fergana Basin in the Western Region.
It is decorated with silver, and there is a tassel rising on the horse's head on the far right, which represents the emperor's banner.
The Golden Root Car that Zhu Yihai was riding in was an improved model, a four-wheeled luxury open-top carriage. The carriage was decorated with gold and silver paintings and twelve chapters.
Originally the emperor drove six horses, but now it is directly twelve horses.
The carriages the princes ride in are four-horse drawn carriages, using fine BMWs such as Qinghai horses, Hetao horses, Mongolian horses, Hexi horses, and Tianshan horses.
The luxurious motorcade moved forward slowly, accompanied by numerous imperial guards.
The cavalrymen of the Imperial Capital Cavalry School even put on gorgeous slanted capes, shiny bright breastplates, and pointed long-colored flag guns on the helmets above their heads. They all rode the same color in a row.
War horses, some cavalry even have decorated wings on their backs.
I was sitting in a well-designed Jingen car. Although it was open-top, there were heated seats and a hand warmer inside.
As soon as the carriage left the palace city, both sides of the road leading to the capital were already crowded with nearby people. They supported the old and the young, wore new clothes, and were waiting early.
Seeing the Emperor's golden car approaching, they all knelt down on the frozen, hard ground.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, no one went to pay New Year greetings. They all came to pay homage to His Majesty the Supreme Emperor.
Zhu Yihai put down the warm teapot in his hand and waved to the people on both sides of the road.
"We will give rewards to everyone. Each person will be given a small dragon. Elderly people over sixty will be rewarded with an extra eight red copper coins. Children under six years old will be rewarded with an extra six copper coins."
Zhu Yihai may be one of the richest people in this era, or even one of the richest people. After all, his internal funds are more than 200 million silver dollars, not counting the value of those commercial banks and so on.
A small dragon is also called a silver dime. A silver dragon has a face value of one tael of silver. Its purchasing power is still very strong. It can buy one stone of rice and wheat, and its quality is 90%. A small dragon's dime is equivalent to one tael of silver, but as a
The fineness of the auxiliary coins is only 80%, but with the strong credit of the imperial court, the ones that have been circulated in these years are still good.
Ten small dragons can be exchanged for one big dragon at any time, no matter shopping or paying taxes, there is no need to subsidize.
Even in Gyeonggi, prices are relatively stable. One dragon can buy twelve kilograms of grain, five kilograms of fish, three kilograms of pork, or four kilograms of beef. It can buy forty-five duck eggs, or fifty-five eggs.
, ordinary vegetables can buy fifty kilograms, and seasonal fruits such as peaches and pears can buy about ten kilograms.
You can also buy two pounds of cotton or two or three feet of white cloth.
Copper coins come in different sizes. They are copper auxiliary coins without holes in the middle. Just like silver auxiliary coins, which are 50 and 20 cents, copper auxiliary coins are divided into 20 coins, 10 coins and 5 coins. The 20 coins are brass coins.
, when it is ten it is a red copper coin, when it is five it is a red copper coin.
Give the old man a little dragon plus eight red copper yuan, which is worth a total of 140 yuan. It is a good red envelope reward. The child also has 130 yuan.
If a family of six or seven people came out, they would get seven to eight hundred yuan.
Everything was prepared in advance. The Shaofu Superintendent prepared a lot of large and small dragon silver and copper coins for rewards, coins, etc. in advance for the Internal Affairs Supervisor. In order to meet the occasion, they were all Tai'an reign coins that were minted in advance last year.
Every emperor has his own ministers, and every new king has his own new money.
Silver coins, silver horns, copper coins, and copper coins, except for the change of the year number on them and the change of the emperor's portrait on the silver coins, the rest has not changed. The quality of all the coins is still the same as the previous Shaotian coins.
Last year, minting bureaus across the country were working at full capacity to mint new coins. These newly coined coins will begin to be officially circulated and used today. The first use will be to reward civil and military officials, military officers and soldiers, as well as princes, relatives, orphans, widows, disabled people and the elderly.
Weak, royal family, foreign vassals, etc.
These new year coins, as well as the image of the new emperor on the dragon silver, will be spread throughout the territory of the Ming Dynasty, even to the surrounding vassals. The new year name of the Ming Dynasty, and the dragon face of the new emperor will also spread.
The amount of the reward this time is very large, but since the court is rich and the new emperor has ascended the throne, it is natural for him to reward more.
The emperor waved his hands all the way, and behind him were the Imperial Guards driving a carriage containing money, and rewarded everyone in the back.
The atmosphere is more lively.
The carriages filled with money were empty one after another, but the Emperor was well prepared, and a steady stream of carriages filled with money drove out from the Xiangshan Palace. Not to mention each person was given a dime, today each person was given a big silver dragon, or even a
Even the emperor can send out golden dragons.
But if we really do this, how will the future emperor pay rewards?
By the time the emperor's motorcade arrived in Beijing, the time was just right.
The new emperor also completed various pre-coronation ceremonies, led the princes, nobles, relatives, and civil and military officials in front of Fengtian Gate to wait for the arrival of the Supreme Emperor. Countless envoys from foreign vassals were also waiting there to witness this extraordinary moment.
"The Supreme Emperor Shaotian, the Divine Martial Saint Emperor, has arrived!"
The main entrance of Fengtian Palace was slowly pushed open, and amid the magnificent palace music, officials from the Ministry of Rites sang loudly about the arrival of the new emperor, who had given him the title of Supreme Emperor.
The new emperor took the lead and came to greet them.
Officials from the Ministry of Rites sang and drank loudly.
"Shao Ying Haotian Junming,
Emperor of China,
Emperor Ming,
The Great Khan of All Mongolia,
The wheel spinner who controls the seven political treasures such as the Wheel of Power, the incarnation of Manjushri Bodhisattva,
The co-leader of the Jurchen tribes outside Guanwai,
Protector of Korea, Annam, Champa, Johor, Ryukyu, Japan, Dawan, Khiva, Nogai, Bukhara, Champa, Burma, Nanzhang, Siberia, and Crimea,
Since Pangu created heaven, three emperors established the country, and five emperors established the territory, Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin, the Han, Wei, and Jin, the Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties, we have been the inheritors and guardians of China's five thousand years of civilization.
His Majesty the Emperor of Tai'an
Lead the civil and military officials to welcome the Supreme Emperor!"