The New Year's Day court meeting in the second year of Chongzhen is different from the previous court meeting in the Wanli period or the Apocalypse. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And the biggest difference is probably the timing.

In the past New Year's Day court meetings, needless to say, the officials of the inner court and the Ministry of Rites were almost not allowed to rest all night, and other officials had to get up a little earlier than attending ordinary court meetings.

Because the emperor led the ministers to participate in too many activities, such as worshipping the sky, sacrificing the earth, worshiping the ancestors, and sacrificing mountains and rivers, sheji, etc., all kinds of red tape during the period can toss people to death.

And all these activities had to be done before the third day of the day.

After all these outdoor activities are completed, I have to return to the Imperial Palace again to receive the worship and congratulations of the hundred officials, if there is an envoy from the vassal country, it will be even better, it is the icing on the cake, and the face of the emperor and the hundred officials is also good-looking.

This time, the foreign envoys who came to congratulate the New Year's Day, except for the three envoys from North Korea, the rest were from the Saibei grassland.

One is the envoy of the king of Guiyi, that is, the envoy of the Kundulun Khan of the Karaqin tribe, Bileg.

The second is the leader of the Duolun tribe, Hadan Batel, that is, the envoy of the Great Ming Dynasty to seal Muyihou, and the younger brother of Hadan Batel, Haswula.

The third was the emissary of Enkhbayar, the leader of the Kulen tribe, and his younger brother Huhelu.

These tribal envoys from the grassland in Saibei are the first time to enter the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the first time to enter the Ming Jingshi.

The magnificence of the Great Wall and the Great Ming Dynasty shocked them and made them fearful.

Although the grassland in the north of the country is vast, it cannot compare with the prosperity and magnificence of the Ming Dynasty.

The envoys of these three tribes first gathered at Rehe Fort, and then Rehe Fort sent troops to escort them into the pass.

The dozens of huge cannons facing the north on the walls of Rehe Fort and Gubeikou made them daunting, and the majesty of the Wulie Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion of cavalry was even more beyond their imagination.

Therefore, along the way, the closer these high-spirited envoys from outside the Saiwai came to the land of Jingshi, the more they felt small, and the more they felt that their leaders were wise in their decision-making to join the Ming Dynasty.

It wasn't until they saw the majestic city of Jingshi from afar that they knew why their ancestors had returned from under this city.

At this time, they finally realized that it was pure wishful thinking that these grassland peoples, who could only ride horses and shoot arrows, wanted to enter the Central Plains in the future!

On the first day of the first month of the second year of Chongzhen, that is, early in the morning of the New Year's Day court, these envoys were called by the officials of the Li Fan Yuan, dressed neatly, and under the guidance of the officials of the Li Fan Yuan and the Ministry of Rites, they arrived outside the noon gate, and together with the Ming Dynasty ministers who were waiting here, they lined up in a long line against the cold wind, waiting for the palace gate to open.

Even an old guy like Bileg, who is accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, saw the majestic palace and the strict etiquette system at this time, and suddenly felt that these Karaqin people from the grassland were indeed out-and-out savages in front of the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty.

At noon, the gate opened, and the courtiers who gathered here to wait for the palace gate to open lined up quietly, and the two sides of the road were lined up with lanterns, Jinyi Guard, Tiance Guard, and Yulin Guard.

Looking at the Chongzhen style held in the other hand of the palace guard in front of him, Bileg's heart was in awe.

He knew how powerful this musket with a long bayonet was, and in his opinion, the number of troops equipped with this musket would be the size of the Ming Dynasty's territory.

And after this kind of firearm was equipped with the Ming army on a large scale, they, the people outside the Sai, had no better choice than to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Along the road in the palace, the courtiers who marched in four columns quickly crossed the stone bridge on the Jinshui Bridge, entered the Huangji Gate, and came to the square under the white marble steps on the third floor of the Huangji Palace.

Just above the square, the ministers were divided into two groups, and the noble ones followed the officials of the Ministry of Rites to climb the steps and enter the main hall of the Imperial Palace to salute, while the rest of the officials knelt down in turn in turn.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen was already sitting on the dragon chair in the hall, listening to the guidance of the celebrant eunuchs and officials of the Ministry of Rites, and watching the minister in front of him kneel three times and bow nine times to himself.

Originally, before and after this court meeting, the six yamen of the imperial court should be sealed and closed and stop working, because the officials and officials were going home for the New Year.

Therefore, at this time, the court meeting actually did not have any specific government affairs to report or discuss and deal with, but were all some ceremonial formal procedures, so the emperor only needed to understand the procedures in advance, and then be at the mercy of the ceremonial officials.

Fortunately, the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites is Xu Guangqi, and according to the emperor's instructions, various etiquette arrangements for the New Year's Day court meeting have been greatly improved.

Due to the severe cold weather and the emperor's weakness, the Ministry of Rites arranged for Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, to go out of the city instead of the emperor and go to worship the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth.

As for the Taimiao, the mountains and rivers, and the Sheji, they were respectively presided over by the British Duke and the other two ministers of military aircraft.

Emperor Chongzhen only needs to sit in the imperial hall, accept the ministers' visits, and then wait for the ministers who went to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth on behalf of the emperor to come back and read the New Year's Day edict.

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen is indeed relaxed, except for Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the cabinet minister who stayed in the Imperial Palace to preside over the ceremony, the other ministers and ministers of military aircraft all have heavy responsibilities.

It's better to say that it's a little closer, for example, Zhang Weixian went to worship the Taimiao, and Sun Chengzong went to worship the Sheji altar, both of which are not far from the noon gate.

The first assistant of the cabinet, Li Guoyao, and the minister of military aircraft, Li Banghua, had to work much harder, one needed to go to the Temple of Heaven inside the Yongding Gate in the outer city to worship the heavens, and then turn back and go to the Temple of Earth outside the Anding Gate to worship the land. Li Banghua wanted to go to the mountain and river altar, which was also located in the outer city, to worship the spirits of the mountains and rivers.

During this period, the courtiers and envoys who had been divided into four ways to enter the palace earlier also followed the four ministers separately and drove to various sacrificial places.

By the time several ministers led their courtiers back to the Imperial Palace, the time had already arrived, and the early morning sun had already shone on the golden roof of the Imperial Palace.

At this time, the courtiers who had been exhausted by tossing only wanted to end such a big court meeting as soon as possible, and quickly disperse to go home to rest and eat for the New Year, after all, every family still has their own ancestors to sacrifice.

After everyone had gathered in the square in front of the Imperial Palace, the high-ranking courtiers and the envoys from outside the Imperial Palace followed the four ministers into the Imperial Palace one after another, and the others knelt on the ground outside as usual.

This is the time to read the New Year's Day edict.

Normally, the New Year's Day edict is a few sentences summarizing the gains and losses of the government in the past year, and then a few sentences about the important affairs of the government in the coming year, and the rest is all kinds of rewards and pardons.

Of course, this is the practice of Wanli and the Apocalypse, since the emperor has ascended to the pole now, the first year of Chongzhen's Yuan Reform Ceremony can be taken by this emperor to get a series of things such as Wuju Enke and so on.

And now among the courtiers and officials kneeling in the palace and outside the palace, some of them have already heard the news that the emperor is going to open the sea.

Therefore, it is difficult for anyone to say what will happen to this emperor who has always not played according to the routine at the New Year's Day court.

Sure enough, the courtiers who were kneeling in the cold wind outside the Imperial Palace soon heard the sound of the edict coming from inside the Imperial Palace.

Sure enough, it's an open sea!

Shen Tingyang, who was kneeling outside the hall, only heard the sharp voice of a eunuch from the Imperial Palace: "Since Pangu opened the world, there must be yang and yin, and there must be ...... sea where there is land."

This is exactly the sound of the edict of the Ming Dynasty opening the sea in the Imperial Palace!

The sound was blown away in the cold wind of the early morning, and the ministers kneeling outside the main hall heard it faintly, not very real, but it did not affect the validity of its edict in the slightest.

Shen Tingyang, who thought that the ministers outside the hall must be excited, secretly looked left and right with the afterglow of his eyes, but he found that the ministers kneeling outside the hall were all indifferent, and some of them were still taking out the food hidden in advance from their sleeves and quickly stuffing it into their mouths.

The scene outside the main hall made Shen Tingyang, a courtier who had been reused by Emperor Chongzhen in history, feel unexpected.

Similarly, after Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, read out the edict of opening the sea in frustration, the performance of the ministers in the Imperial Palace also surprised Emperor Chongzhen, who was riveting enough to prepare for the battle of Confucianism.

Except for a few people who secretly exchanged heads and whispered to each other, no one stood up to object, and most of the courtiers looked physically and mentally exhausted.