Although the sky is not bright, but with the sound of a drum, on the east and west sides of the Danqi, the neat and uniform armor soldiers have set up the guard of honor, waiting for the battle, it is the flag fluttering, the horse is majestic, the tiger and leopard bow their heads, and the drum music is noisy.

With the sound of the second drum, the civil and military officials were already waiting at the noon gate, and Shang Baoqing and many attendants and guards had already come to the outside of the palace to greet the emperor who was serving here. And when the third drum sounds, the civil and military officials, Chinese and foreign envoys, monks and elders who should participate in today's canonization ceremony, and even the famous scholars and Confucians who gathered in the capital because of the sutra feast before are also in place.

As for today's biggest protagonist, the third prince, at this time, he began to wear his complicated dress in the inner ear room of Fengtianmen. At first glance, his body is not much different from the set of crowns of the three princes yesterday, and even the crown is similar, the only difference is probably the Xuanyi dress, and the jade gui in his hand is a little longer.

However, it is this little difference, but it is the goal that countless dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren are desperately fighting for. And he knew that when the eldest prince and the second prince were still alive, entering the East Palace at his current age would really become the target of countless people's picking, not to mention that the two brothers must be extremely resentful, but since he promised his father, of course he made up his mind.

Layers of clothes were put on, leather straps and ribbons were fastened, and when the heavy crown was finally put on, he felt that his neck was so stiff that he couldn't move. He couldn't help but think of what Zhang Shou inadvertently said to him - if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. Therefore, when he saw this set of crown princes yesterday, his heart was like a mirror.

The color of the prince's clothes is different from that of the prince, and this kind of dyed clothing is not something that ordinary weaving workshops can drive out, it must be made in advance by the Jiangnan Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, and such a dense and heavy texture must be customized according to his size, and all patterns must be in the specified position, and it is by no means a one-day effort.

If it is calculated according to the day when his father announced that he will be canonized as the crown prince, this crown will not be able to be made at all. In other words, the father had already made up his mind even longer.

How could this not make him honestly afraid? How can you not make him feel guilty? How could he not be told to swear to give it his all?

As the beads of the crown were straightened out by the attendant and hung above his forehead, he heard the great music of the outer world, but it showed that the emperor had left the palace of the body and went to the temple of Fengtian, and he immediately followed the guide to the door.

The drum music stopped abruptly, and the sound of the emperor's ascension to the throne of the Fengtian Hall came, followed by three silent whips. The third prince only felt that the heaven and earth seemed to be silent in an instant, and when he followed the four people into the east gate of Fengtian, he was even a little confused, until the ritual music sounded again, and when he stepped on the worship seat that had been prepared on the Danqi for a long time, his heart was pounding, and he almost jumped out of his throat.

Worship, Xing, Ping, although the action of kneeling and bowing is meticulous, no matter how strict the etiquette official is, he can't find any mistakes, but the third prince feels like a marionette at this time, his head is blank, and he seems to be completely unaware of it, relying on instinct to support all his movements.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a loud voice: "There is a system!" ”

The third prince almost subconsciously knelt on the ground again, but the moment his knees hit the ground, he could tell who this voice was, and when he looked up again, it was not the Ministry of Rites, but Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing, the Ministry of War!

"The edict said: The prince should respect the temple, emphasize the community, not a family and a private family, and be the public of the world. The prosperity of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, also used this way. The third prince, Zheng Rong, was smart and benevolent, filial and gentle, enough to inherit the temple, and was established as the crown prince on October 15, the 27th year of Yongchen. ”

Hearing that simple eight-word comment, the third prince only felt a tremor in his heart, until the chief of the salute prostrated himself, he woke up like a dream, hurriedly bowed and thanked him, and then followed the lead officer into front of the throne of the Fengtian Palace, and bowed again.

He bowed down in a bit of a daze, and it was not until the official reading the treasure read aloud the contents of the book on the gold book, that he suddenly realized. Even if he didn't look up, he could hear that this was Zhang Shou's voice! When he got up after the ceremony, he had just entered from the outside, and after experiencing the two days of cold and warm, he tried his best to stabilize his body and stand up straight, and then met Zhang Shou's smiling face as always.

After reading the book, Zhang Shou presented the golden book in his hand to the Confucius scholar on the side. Although the Confucian scholar has not yet been appointed as the first assistant, on this occasion, it is already obvious that the actual power of conferring a golden book on behalf of the Son of Heaven to the crown prince is already obvious.

For such an honor, Confucius scholar should have felt that he was complacent, but when he saw that the person who read the text on the golden book turned out to be Zhang Shou, and saw that on this occasion, the third prince and Zhang Shou looked at each other and smiled, as if everything was in silence, but he felt extremely relieved in his heart.

Especially when he thought of the lecture in the East Palace recommended by these bigwigs, not only was Zhang Shou added by the emperor as if mixed with sand at the beginning, but he was even recommended by Zhang Shou and stuffed a Liu Zhiyuan, he felt in a bad mood.

Therefore, when he gave the golden book and treasure to the third prince, he didn't even have to pretend to have a strained face. Seeing that the little prince, who had become a prince and no one cared about in the past, took the gold book and the gold treasure with both hands, and then solemnly handed it over to the internal envoy who was in charge of holding the gold book and the gold treasure on the side, and then bowed down to thank him again with the drum music, he couldn't help but smile in his heart.

The eldest prince and the second prince are not good in all their ways, but at least they are adults, but now the third prince is too small - so small that if the Son of Heaven goes out on a temporary tour or something else, if he wants to keep the prince in charge of the country, this prince can only entrust all affairs to the minister. Moreover, people seem to be gentle and frugal, and they should be easier to deal with than a son of heaven like the emperor.

In the eyes of the fourth prince, who is also wearing a full crown and is so heavy that he has to stiffen his face, today's third brother is a kowtow worm, and he has been kneeling and bowing since the beginning of the cold wind blowing on the Danqi and listening to the canonization of the crown prince. He even counted on his fingers in extreme boredom, and was shocked to find that people got up and knelt down at least five times, and kowtowed to more than a dozen or twenty.

To be a good prince, the third brother is really not easy! After a while, he accompanied the third brother to Qingning Palace and the two palaces, and he had to continue to kowtow!

When the little bear child felt tired for his third brother in his heart, the third prince had already left the Fengtian Hall under the escort of the guide, saluted again at the worship seat, and then went to the east ear room of Fengtianmen, preparing to meet the Queen Mother first, and then go to meet the two palaces.

Now there is no owner in the middle palace, Concubine Yu and Concubine He, as concubines, take care of palace affairs together, although for him, one is a concubine, the other is a biological mother, not the middle palace, originally according to the ritual system can not be seen, but the emperor still changed a sum in the ritual system of the Ministry of Rites.

The emperor specially added that he would go to the two palaces to meet these two concubines, but the etiquette was reduced by one or two. In this regard, he is naturally extremely grateful in his heart, after all, he is like a mountain, not to mention that Concubine He has always loved his son extremely much, although Concubine Yu is cold, but she has never been proud of his mother and son, and even in the past he even tried his best to defend it in front of the abolition, of course he is willing to take this opportunity to thank him.

He was surrounded by people carefully selected by the emperor, so no one advocated that he, the crown prince, should take advantage of his entry into the East Palace to find a way to make his biological mother and concubine in the middle palace, so as to cut off the possibility of the favored concubine and young son shaking the throne in the future. But such a statement is not unspoken. And it was none other than Liu Feng who said this, it was Liu Feng, who had caused the four princes to be beaten before.

The third prince was thinking about whether to go to his father to expose this guy, but the next day the fourth prince's public case suddenly happened, he heard that Liu Feng was killed with a cane, so he regretted it, but if he said it in front of his father at that time, he would inevitably have the meaning of shirking the responsibility to the dead, so he was silent in the end, but at this moment, he couldn't help but recall this incident again.

Of course, the newly baked crown prince must first go to the queen mother and the two noble concubines of Concubine Yu and Concubine Yu to salute, however, it is impossible for the civil and military officials to disperse, because before the East Palace, everyone has to escort the edict of the East Palace to read outside the noon gate, after all, there are also representatives of the officials and gentry of the Shuntian Mansion who were carefully selected before the Shuntian Mansion.

Although compared with the Lantern Festival lanterns in the Hutong of Shangguan Lantern City on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the hundreds of people gathered at this noon gate at this moment are nothing at all, but all smart people know that compared with the kind of drama in which the Son of Heaven and the people are happy with the people on the Shangyuan Festival, aiming to promote the peace of the world, the meaning of the canonization of the prince in public at Noon Gate today is naturally completely different.

And this time, the person who read out the edict of the canonization of the East Palace here is of course no longer Zhang Shou, but Wu Gelao, who is commonly known as the Son of Heaven Ying Sheng.

Although this person was scolded by countless people behind his back in the past as a yin and immoral, when he really read the edict aloud at this time, it was no less than those Honglu Temple officials who had been specially selected in the past and had a loud voice.

What's even more rare is that the simple canonization edict was actually read by him with a sense of rhythm and frustration.

And after reading it, Wu Ge's old face was not red or panting, but he seemed more energetic, especially after getting a few compliments from Scholar Zhang, he smiled more heartily.

"When I was young, I was timid, I spoke and spoke, and I was even more unbearable to treat people, and then I learned from the pain, so I went to the back mountain to recite poems and articles against the stone wall, day after day, year after year, and finally I was able to speak clearly and clearly, which was the college examination and the township examination, and it also attracted the favor of the examiner. Today, the emperor asked me to read out the edict of canonizing the East Palace, which is really like lightning. ”

Hearing that Elder Wu Ge had not forgotten to praise the saints at such a time, Confucius University Scholar frowned first. But even if there are people around him who are like him, and he can hear that the selected Gyeonggi monks and elders are cheering and dancing there, who would say something bad at such a time?

It's just a holiness that goes with the flow. Song Sheng is the most infallible, don't look at countless people scolding Wu Ge behind his back for always being an echo worm, but who doesn't want to replace this echo worm?

And Zhang Shou, who was standing in an inconspicuous position, couldn't help but think, even though hundreds of civil and military officials gathered today, it was not like the banquet where the royal family and the daughters of various families gathered, so he didn't see Zhu Ying's shadow. But he still remembered that Zhu Ying told him vividly that he would definitely come to watch this canonization ceremony today.

In that case, where have people gone? Could it really be that he just peeked at the corner gate of Fengtian Temple and was done?

When Zhang Shouzheng thought so, he took the four princes to Qingning Palace to meet the new crown prince of the Queen Mother, and after a series of rituals of joy and stopping, when he finally stepped into the Qingning Palace where the Queen Mother was located, he saw an extraordinary scene.

is different from what he imagined, his biological mother and concubine and concubine Yu are all here, in addition, the concubines and concubines are gathered, and there are many princesses, and among these people, the most conspicuous one is not others, it is Zhu Ying.

Because the new crown prince of the third prince clearly remembered that his father had teased him and the fourth prince at dusk yesterday, Zhu Ying's outfit would definitely not be inferior to the heaviness of his crown prince's crown. The fourth prince asked curiously at that time, but his father cited the Jiuzhai Four Phoenix Crowns as an example, and he immediately realized that his father had given Princess Zhu Ying a crown dress.

But right now, Zhu Ying's real red big-sleeved shirt is certainly bright and eye-catching, and the hair headdress is also golden and jade, but it is only the shape of a product, and even because she is not married, the bun is much simpler than that of Mrs. Yipin.

I didn't know that last night the Zhao Guogong Mansion sent someone to urgently send Mrs. Tai's handwritten note into the Qianqing Palace, Chen Zhu Ying accepted the crown clothes, but did not want to take it today, at this moment, the third prince couldn't help but stare at Zhu Ying and looked at it, until the person showed a big smile at him, he woke up like a dream, and hurriedly bowed eight times under the guidance of the female official.

"Boy Zheng Rong, I hereby accept the canonization, and I would like to thank Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother."

This is the old rule when the East Palace Dynasty met the Queen Mother, for the Queen Mother, who had been the princess and queen of the domain, she had seen her own son become the crown prince, and now she saw her grandson in the East Palace, she could be said to have mixed feelings. Especially the little erlang in front of her is not what everyone expects, but now she looks like a little adult, and she thinks more and more of the brothers who used to be in the blessing and didn't know the blessing.

There were no superfluous words in the court ceremony, but the queen mother understood that Concubine Yu and Concubine He came to her here today without saying that she didn't want the prince to go to her palace to thank her again, so after she received the ceremony, she smiled and said: "Since your two concubines are here, you should also salute together." ”

The fourth prince who followed the third prince blinked his eyes, and saw his mother Concubine Jiang winking at him, obviously asking him not to open his mouth, he couldn't help but understand very much in his heart, Concubine Yu didn't forget it, but Concubine He deliberately came here, could it be that he didn't want to say a few words to the third brother who became the prince in his palace when the third brother was crowned prince?

However, he didn't understand, but the third prince vaguely knew that his mother was unwilling to cause him trouble. He respectfully saluted Concubine Yu and Concubine He, but Concubine Yu was in the first place, and Concubine Yu was second, just like the position in the palace when the two were concubines in the past. But then, he didn't forget to salute the rest of the imperial concubines, including Concubine Jiang, and that courtesy was exactly the same as just now to Concubine Yu and concubines.

In the face of such a gentle, courteous and frugal new prince, who doesn't like many concubines? Compared with the character of the eldest prince and the second prince who entered the East Palace, the third prince became the crown prince, if they walked behind the emperor in the future, they would not be afraid of a good end!

After thanking the concubines one by one, the eyes of the three princes finally fell on the princesses. Now that the eldest prince and the second prince have been sent out of Beijing, he has no brothers, and there are only these sisters. Therefore, he took a deep breath, and finally solemnly said to the princesses, including Zhu Ying: "Boy Zheng Rong, I am hereby ordained, and I am here today to thank you for taking care of you for many years. ”