Chapter 37 Section 1 Enthroned at Forty

In July of the first year of Wu (1367 A.D.), the defeat of Zhang Shicheng, the last rival, was determined.The general trend of the world has been determined, and the ministers all hope that he will become emperor as soon as possible.Li Shanchang led his ministers to persuade them to come in, but Zhu Yuanzhang signaled everyone to wait a little longer.Zhu Yuanzhang has always been the most stable one in the leader group, and he is good at grasping the priorities to achieve the best efficiency.Although there are no major difficulties ahead, but the battle is going on, it is better to concentrate on fighting first.He taught his ministers like this: "If the fate is in my hands, why should I worry about it?"

It wasn't until December of this year that the south was completely pacified, and the Northern Expedition army was in full swing, and there were no more accidents. Then he settled down to hold the enthronement ceremony.Gu Li made three pushes and three concessions, and he was impatient to engage in that trick, so he only agreed after one concession. People who have never been an emperor can't imagine how many red tapes they have to go through before boarding that dragon chair.There are sacrifices to heaven, earth, stars, Sheji, Taisui, Yue, town, sea, du, mountains and rivers, and even the city god.Drinking blessings, receiving scorpion (zuo, meat for sacrifices), giving off gods, all kinds of things.Among these exhausting links, there was a ceremony that really moved Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, honoring the ancestors as emperors and queens.His father, Zhu Wusi, was revered as the pure emperor Renzu, and his mother, Chen Erniang, was revered as the pure queen.

The 40-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a uniform with patterns such as the sun, the moon, mountains and dragons, and a flat sky crown. He knelt in front of the ancestral tablet and read the book. When he closed his eyes, the faces of his parents appeared in front of him again.Their disheveled faces are so out of harmony with the dragon robes and crowns.Since the rise of the army, the power has grown more and more, and there have been more and more things. He has little time to think about the past.Only at this moment did he suddenly startle, and clearly saw how humble he had climbed up from.All of a sudden, everything in the thatched hut with air leaks in the house appeared clearly in my mind again.The gap during this period made him suddenly feel a little dizzy.

He gathered himself together and said silently in his heart: "Dad, Mom, not only you can't think of it, but my son himself didn't think that he would have today."