Wanli Youming

Chapter 1
It was the second day of February in the first year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty.

Spring is cold and cold, and the morning light is faint.

In the Forbidden City, where the palace lanterns were still on, her vermilion silhouette just emerged.

Standing in the Qianqing Palace of the city, Zhu Yijun cast his gaze out of the window, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

After several days of panic, irritability, hesitation, and relieved psychological changes, he accepted his identity as Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the current Zhu Yijun is no longer the Wanli Emperor in history.

The biggest difference is that Zhu Yijun in this life has an extra soul from a later life.

Although this day on the second day of February in the first year of Wanli is not a very noteworthy time in history.

But in the current Ming Dynasty, it is an important day, especially for the powerful and bureaucratic class of the entire Ming Empire.

Many people maintained a tense and dignified attitude for this day.

Because this day is the day when the new emperor will have a sutra feast!
The superficial political meaning of Jingyan is to let lecturers read Confucian classics and history for the emperor, but in the Ming Dynasty, which ruled the country with rituals, the deeper meaning is to symbolize that the emperor is willing to follow the ritual system to govern the country and to become a Ming emperor. Therefore, the world is about to rule.

For the emperor personally, it is naturally also a key opportunity to win the hearts of the scholars in the world, and to let the scholars in the world recognize him as an emperor is a key opportunity to become a good emperor.

Therefore, whether the emperor is willing to open the sutra banquet, and whether he can complete the sutra feast seriously, is related to whether the relationship between the emperor and the bureaucratic scholar-bureaucrats is harmonious or antagonistic.

Zhu Yijun, who has not taken power yet and has not yet gained popularity, naturally dare not neglect this sutra feast.

You know, he is now a young man ascending the throne, so it can be said that he is the master of the country.

The birth mother Li, the eunuch and admiral Feng Bao, the chief inspector of ceremonies, and Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, formed a political alliance, known as the Iron Triangle, which limited his imperial power.

And if he does not conform to the behavior that a sage and benevolent lord of this era should have, there is a slight possibility that he will be deposed.

Because in history, his biological mother Li Shi threatened to abolish him because of his mistakes, and let his younger brother Lu Wang ascend the throne.

So Zhu Yijun knows that he can't be willful now, he can only do everything first, and then wait until he grows up smoothly.

As long as he grows up smoothly, the power that belongs to him will naturally come back, as long as he doesn't make mistakes during this time.

In fact, as long as he doesn't act recklessly, the Iron Triangle will not want to cause trouble and replace the emperor at the cost of undermining the orthodox Confucian succession principle.

Even Zhu Yijun knew that he didn't have to think about whether he would use any means to suppress this iron triangle in the future, especially Zhang Juzheng.

Because in the future, without waiting for him, the emperor, the bureaucrats will take the initiative to bite Zhang Juzheng in the future, even if Zhang Juzheng dies, the bureaucrats will not let him go.

Even, if he, the emperor, wants to think about the long-term interests of Daming, he may have to control the degree of revenge of the bureaucracy against Zhang Juzheng's family.

If the fate of Zhang Juzheng's family is too miserable, then there will really be no chief minister in Ming Dynasty who would dare to offend the bureaucrats all over the world for the sake of the common people.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun, who already knew the context of historical development, didn't mind at all the behavior of Zhang Juzheng's powerful ministers, let alone the fact that Qi Jiguang, a national hero, was Zhang Juzheng's running dog and offered him two Persian beauties.

Man only flatters the source of his power.

Zhu Yijun can't give Qi Jiguang power now, Zhang Juzheng can give Qi Jiguang power, so even if Qi Jiguang really wants to do some practical things for the people of the world, it is impossible not to please Zhang Juzheng.

And if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng who also happens to be a politician who "seeks to seek the country", Qi Jiguang, a military general, might not be qualified to be Zhang Juzheng's running dog.

What Zhu Yijun only cares about is that Qi Jiguang gave Zhang Juzheng a capital assistant two orchids, so in the future, when he takes power in person and can give Qi Jiguang power, will he have to give himself five orchids?
After all, he is the emperor!How can it be less than Shoufu?

Plus some interest, is it ten? !
Otherwise, where would I put my face as an emperor?
Of course, Zhu Yijun was just thinking about it that way.

Turning back, because he knows that it is not Zhang Juzheng who will really restrict his imperial power in the future, but the entire bureaucratic group, so Zhu Yijun doesn't care that Zhang Juzheng abuses his power, and only wants to raise his own hope seriously.

For this reason, he took the initiative to get up early and pushed open the door of the palace by himself.

The servants and maids on duty at night couldn't help being surprised when they heard the voice.

"Serve the emperor to wash up!"

Not long after, Zhu Yijun, under the service of the maids, put on the Yishan crown and the round collar embroidered with gown, and he really looked like an emperor.

Zhu Yijun was still surprised by this.

However, it was just casual clothes. After breakfast, Zhu Yijun changed into a red woven golden dragon gauze and a jade hook. Go to pay your respects to the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces.

There were two empress dowagers in the Wanli Dynasty, the empress dowager Rensheng, the aunt, and the empress dowager Li, the birth mother.

Among the queen mothers of the two palaces, the most powerful one is naturally the queen mother Li.

Because the emotional memory of the original owner still remained, Zhu Yijun suddenly panicked at the thought of seeing Queen Mother Li, and suddenly felt a sense of social fear.

Empress Dowager Li lives in the warm pavilion in the side hall of Qianqing Palace.

In order to take good care of her son Zhu Yijun, Empress Dowager Li had always lived with Zhu Yijun in the same hall and slept on the opposite bed, but only moved to the Nuan Pavilion in the first year of Wanli.

Even though she moved to his palace now, Empress Dowager Li still did not relax her supervision on Zhu Yijun. She was used to being careful, and she was deeply afraid that her son would not conform to the Holy Lord and Renjun because of her negligence in discipline, and she would also end up in a bad situation with herself. reputation.

"Come on, go and call Your Majesty to wake up."

Therefore, even though the weather in early spring is still very cold, Empress Dowager Li will still rush to urge the palace people to wake up the emperor before dawn, without considering that Zhu Yijun is only ten years old now, which is the age of snoozing.

Empress Dowager Li really didn't want the courtiers to think that the current emperor is lazy because her emperor's son was too bedridden to delay the banquet.

However, the more you are afraid of something, the more something will come.

Empress Dowager Li may not know that one of the biggest characteristics of Emperor Wanli's impression on scholar-bureaucrats in history is laziness, not faintness and violence.

"Young lady! The emperor is here!"

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the Nuan Pavilion, and a servant called out at this moment.

Empress Dowager Li was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"Just say that I have a headache, so I got up late, and let the emperor wait outside!"

Immediately afterwards, Queen Mother Li gave an order.

The Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty did not call herself an Ai family. For example, Fan Shuzhi's "History of the Late Ming Dynasty" mentioned that the Empress Dowager Mercy gave Wanli the eve of her wedding. Palace...", from this, it can be proved that Empress Dowager Li basically refers to herself as "I".

Empress Dowager Li hurriedly got up and got out of bed after giving orders here.

The maids came over to wash her.

After taking a bath, Empress Dowager Li couldn't help smiling, and said to the leading palace maid next to her, "Ma'am, my son can take the initiative to wake up early!"

In the Ariake generation, high-status court ladies would be referred to as madams.

The wife beside Empress Dowager Li also laughed and said: "The emperor is eager to learn, and it is all taught by the empress."

Empress Dowager Li said to his wife: "You go to see Feng Bao, and let Feng Bao immediately pass it on to the gentlemen outside to know the emperor's virtue of diligence!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)