Then, from the beginning of May, Yun Xi began to fast for three days. The fifth day www.biquge.info of May is the first anniversary of Zhu Yuanzhang's death, and Yunxi wants to worship Zhu Yuanzhang in Xiaoling on this day, so he will set off on the fourth day of the new year, and fast in the palace from the first to the third day of the new year.

Not only him, but Xi Yao and Crown Prince Wenyuan also had to go to worship the filial piety tomb together. Although Wen Yuan can't speak and can't walk steadily, as the legal heir of the Ming Dynasty, he also has to go to worship his great-grandfather together. Therefore, their mother and son also have to fast, although Wenyuan is still basically eating liquid food.

Xi Yao didn't worry about letting Wen Yuan fast alone, so she took Wen Yuan with her. Because she had to fast for three days to show her sincerity, she couldn't take care of the palace affairs, so she handed over the palace affairs to her sister Xiyi.

Whenever this kind of Xiyao had to temporarily hand over the palace affairs to others, she was glad that they entered the palace together as two sisters. The waiter and the other Xi Yao didn't distrust them, but if something unexpected happened, they would never dare to make a decision, and Xi Yi would have no problem.

Although the two sisters entered the palace together, if Yun Xi didn't like them, then the two sisters would have jumped into the fire pit - if Xi Yao had no children, then even if Yun Xi did not abolish her position as queen, it was actually not very different from abolishing it - but this is a huge advantage when the status of the Xi Yao sisters is consolidated.

In addition to Yunxi's family of three, the officials who were hand-picked to accompany him also fasted and bathed at home. High-ranking officials above the fourth rank and nobles in Beijing are naturally qualified to accompany them, but the officials below depend on Yunxi's meaning.

Yun Xi ordered all the housekeepers to accompany him, and ordered six departments to accompany the middle officials. It doesn't have to be a cronie, Yun Xi wants to show his courage, so he points out all the officials in important positions and officials with good reputations.

Early in the morning of the fourth day of the fifth month, Yun Xi got up to prepare, and he was going to set off from the palace to Xiaoling. The accompanying officials got up earlier than Yun Xi, and they all got up at about the end of the day, and then hurried to the gate of the palace to wait.

Yun Xi and his party arrived at the place where the filial piety tomb was located at about noon, and then Yun Xi fasted for another day, and the next day in the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month was not yet bright, Yun Xi got up to bathe and change clothes, and then led the entourage to worship the filial piety tomb.

The glorious task of being a deacon was handed over to Wang Xi, the eunuch he trusted most now, and his deputies were handed over to the two eunuchs, Wang Bu and Wang Jin. Both of them were very happy to get this position, which showed that Yunxi still remembered them.

Yun Xi watched Wang Xi take the other eunuchs to put the sacrificial livestock on the stage, and then knelt down and kowtowed four times facing Zhu Yuanzhang's shrine in the main hall, and after finishing the prescribed words, he silently recited in his heart: "Grandpa Huang, don't worry, my Ming dynasty will definitely be carried forward in the hands of my grandson, your two favorite poems during your lifetime: ruthless may not be a true hero, how can a poor son not be a husband, and it has been engraved on the stone tablet and buried in the mausoleum." ’

Grandson has also thought of a lot of poems to worship grandpa this year, but ruthless may not be true heroes of these few lines of this poem, grandson feels that it is already the greatest praise for the emperor's grandfather, I really can't think of better, grandson does not want to use inferior poems to stain grandpa's ears, so there is no new poem to worship. Grandpa Huang, you probably already know that this poem was not originally written by your grandson, but no one is more suitable for these two poems than grandpa, and presumably grandpa will not care if it is original or not. ’

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Zhu Yuanzhang taught Yun Xi for six years, so Yun Xi's feelings for Zhu Yuanzhang are very sincere, and he usually doesn't think about it, but now he worships Zhu Yuanzhang in Xiaoling, and the words can't be stopped.

Yun Xi couldn't help but shed tears as he spoke. He still misses Zhu Yuanzhang very much. After all, this is the grandfather who taught him personally for six years and cared for him.

After a long time, Yun Xi's tears were dry, and he stood up to end the worship. But Yun Xi knelt on the ground for too long, his legs were completely numb, and he couldn't stand up, but Zhu Di on the side and Zhu Ying, the prince who had not yet been sealed, helped him up.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and Yun Xi announced that he would go to worship Xiao Dongling tomorrow, so he returned to the place where he lived to rest.

Before leaving the filial piety mausoleum, Yun Xi ordered: "In the future, no matter the officials and the people, they need to get off the horse, get off the car, get off the sedan chair and walk after a hundred steps of the filial piety mausoleum, and the offender will be beheaded with great disrespect." ”

The next day, Yunxi went to worship and bury Zhu Biao's filial piety tomb.

For the 'father' buried in the Xiaodong Mausoleum, who has been posthumously named Emperor Taizongwen, Yunxi doesn't have much emotion. Even if he inherited the memory of the original Yunxi, it was not as good as his personal experience in the past few years, so his feelings were very weak.

However, Yun Xi still said when he was kneeling: "Father, I will let you always be the title of the emperor, not the one who was demoted to Prince Yiwen after four years of posthumously being crowned emperor!" ”

On the same day, Yunxi rested in this vicinity for another night, and then returned to the capital on the seventh day of the fifth month.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Yun Xi came to the court on this day. Yun Xi had just arrived at the court, and the officials waiting in the hall felt that something was not right, and the slow ones who reacted had not found anything wrong, and the fast ones had already reacted: The clothes the emperor was wearing today were different.

Yun Xi has been mourning for Zhu Yuanzhang for the past year, so he has been wearing plain clothes, even during the New Year, he only wore blue clothes, not bright colors; But today Yun Xi is wearing a yellow, most formal court dress.

Just when some officials were stunned, Wang Xi announced the beginning of the early dynasty.

Those ministers who hadn't figured it out yet began to talk about things, but the ministers who noticed that Yun Xi was dressed differently were thinking that Yun Xi had changed his clothes so suddenly, which was a bit contrary to what he said about serving Zhu Yuanzhang's mourning for three years, what was it for. So not many people even talk about the most noisy thing about the number of people these days.

Not many people said anything about it, so it was actually nothing, and it was all said in a while. At this time, Yun Xi stood up and said, "The fifth day of the first month is the death day of Emperor Taizu, and you all know that most of you also followed me to worship Emperor Taizu. ”

"When Emperor Taizu passed away last year, I was very sad, although according to the practice of previous dynasties, the emperor can change the day and the moon, but I really miss Emperor Taizu too much, so I decided to mourn for twenty-seven months according to the ancient dress."

At this time, Xie Jin, who was a scholar and concurrently served as the deputy chief of the Rite Section (in the middle of the matter), and whose actual work was to preside over the re-revision of the "History of the Yuan", said: "Your Majesty's filial piety has moved heaven and earth, and the ancient gentlemen can't reach it. "I slapped Yunxi with a sycophant.

However, although Xie Jin is patting on the back, what he said is good. Since the Han Dynasty has come, the emperors have said that they would mourn for 27 months at the beginning, but under the persuasion of hundreds of officials, they finally changed the day for the month. And this year has passed, and I haven't heard of any concubine in the palace who is pregnant, it seems that Yun Xi's mourning is still very sincere. Therefore, although the hundred officials despised Xie Jin's personality, everyone admitted that Yun Xi was indeed very filial.

Yun Xi smiled slightly and continued: "But when I was resting near the filial piety tomb on the evening of the fifth day of the first month, Emperor Taizu gave me a dream and said: 'Why do you insist on serving mourning for twenty-seven months, filial piety or not is all in your heart, and it has nothing to do with what you behave outside. ’”

"'Grandpa was born in the poor, and he saw people who were very filial on the surface, but behind the scenes, Hu Tianhai did not respect etiquette at all during the filial piety of his parents. It can be seen that filial piety has nothing to do with the appearance on the surface. Grandpa thought about it, the parents of the family probably preferred their son to only serve a year's mourning, but to follow the etiquette, and did not want their son to serve three years of mourning, but only to observe the ceremony for a few days. ’”

"So you don't have to mourn for three years, grandpa knows your filial piety. When you go back, you should take off your clothes, and you don't have to continue to wear plain clothes and observe filial piety. ’”

"I listened to what Emperor Taizu said in his dream, and I felt that it was very reasonable, so I decided to get rid of it today and show filial piety."

When the officials heard this, they didn't say anything. This has nothing to do with the hundred officials, and some people think that this is because Yun Xi is impatient and wants to continue to keep filial piety for more than a year, so he deliberately made up such a story. However, Yunxi has been observing filial piety for a year, which has long exceeded the 27-day filial piety rule for the emperor, so the ministers will not object.

But Yun Xi finally made up such a story, how could he only use it for his filial piety?

Yun Xi continued: "I think that what Emperor Taizu said about filial piety or not filial piety is all right in my heart, and the reason why Sage Kong put forward the idea of three years of filial piety back then was to make the child feel the difficulty of his parents back then, and to give the child three years to accept the news of his parents' death, not that the child must have to mourn for his parents for three years. ”

"So I decided that in the future, the royal family's beheading will be served, and it will be enough to mourn for a year. If you are still immersed in the grief of your father's death and can't extricate yourself, you can't waste your time and spend it empty. What do you think? ”

The ministers were a little surprised by Yun Xi's words, but after thinking about it for a while, several officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple and other yamen still did not object to Yun Xi's words.

On the one hand, what Yun Xi said is still reasonable, and on the other hand, because the imperial family is different from other families, although the vassal kings in various places have served three years of mourning, they have actually been doing things in the fiefdom, and they have not done anything at home like the funeral etiquette required by Confucius back then. Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Rites felt that there was no need to stop it.

So this article was passed above the court.