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Chapter 900 Clues on the tile
After realizing that Joan's analysis made mistakes this time because of the language gap, Liang En quickly explained to her the meaning behind these words.

The words on these tiles are not ordinary blessing articles, but a kind of blessing words with special direction, and there are some special messages behind them.

Take Changle Weiyang as an example. Although the literal meaning of this sentence is long-term joy and never ending, it is actually a blessing word with national characteristics in the Han Dynasty.

For example, the most famous three palaces in the Han Dynasty were Changle Palace, Weiyang Palace and Jianzhang Palace.

Among them, Changle Palace was mainly inhabited by the Empress Dowager except Han Gaozu Liu Bang, while Weiyang Palace was mainly the main palace of the Western Han Dynasty, and it was also the palace where the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty lived.It can also be said that these two palaces belong to the core of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, this sentence of Changle Weiyang's congratulations is not only a good wish, but also an attitude of support for the Han Dynasty royal family and the royal family, which clearly highlights the attitude of the people here.

As for the sentence written on the other side, the son of heaven will live forever, this is even more obvious, because the king of the Huns never called himself the son of heaven, but called himself Shanyu, so this can only be a blessing to the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

But the problem now is that although Li Ling was awarded a very high position after being captured, he has always been guarded by the Huns, otherwise he would not have been sent to the northern border to lead a group of people completely different from himself.

Therefore, for this former general of the Han Dynasty who fled to the Huns, sometimes it is most important to keep a low profile. For example, such blatant blessings to the emperor of the Han Dynasty are absolutely unacceptable.

More importantly, for Li Ling, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty killed all his relatives, so it was impossible for him to choose such a sentence as "Long Live the Son of Heaven" and put it on the tile for blessing.

"It turns out that there are so many stories behind this. If I say this, then my guess is indeed wrong." After listening to Liang En finish telling the story, Joan nodded in approval.

"But now the question is back again, whose palace is such a huge, Han Dynasty-style palace. At least I can't think of anyone in history who can build such a palace."

"In this regard, I have a rough guess." Liang En said, picking up a big tile with the words "Long Live the Son of Heaven, Chang Le Weiyang", and then pointed to the tile and said to Joan of Arc. "Did you notice any difference in this tile?"

"It's different—" After hearing Liang En's words, Joan of Arc stared at Wadan in front of her and began to think, but soon she realized the problem.

"It's a word problem. The one in Changle Weiyang is wrong. If I remember correctly, this word should be long, not the current homonym."

"You're right, this kind of fixed words, um, often use fixed words, especially when I use this kind of standard parts, there should be absolutely no such large-scale mistakes." Liang En's observation of Joan of Arc Still very satisfied.

"So the mistake in this place is not a real mistake, but involves a very interesting history, and the protagonist in this history is Wang Mang, who has a very complicated evaluation by later generations."

Wang Mang is a controversial figure in history. Ancient historians regarded him as a "giant traitor" who usurped the throne in an "orthodox" concept.

But after the end of the modern imperial system, Wang Mang was hailed by many historians as "the first social reformer in Chinese history".Think of him as a visionary and selfless social reformer.

There are a lot of studies on Wang Mang. If you want to write dozens of papers, there should be no problem.But what I want to talk about now is a very small part of it, that is Wang Mang's weird hobby of changing his name.

Take the change of place names as an example. In fact, there have been changes in place names in all dynasties, but such changes as Wang Mang's psychosis are very rare.

According to history, Wang Mang is a fanatical Confucianist revivalist, and he is determined to restore the Zhou system, so there is also his reason for changing the place name-"Ying Jing", that is, changing it according to classic books.
For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the country into thirteen states, and later added a Sili Xiaowei Department.When Wang Mang came to power, it would become twelve prefectures, which were mainly compiled according to classics such as "Yao Dian" and "Yu Gong".

After reaching the county level, Wang Mang let himself go. According to statistics, compared with the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the number of counties in Xinmang increased from 106 to 116.

Among the counties and counties that were added and transformed, a total of 91 counties were renamed, and only 25 retained their original names; counties changed from 1587 to 1585, of which 730 counties changed their names, nearly half.

What's more terrible is that these name changes were completed in a very short period of time, which means that it is very likely that you will find that half of the place names in the country have been changed when you wake up. Today, just changing the street signs is not a small sum.

Moreover, these name changes are purely a convulsion. For example, the six counties of Nanyang, Hanoi, Yingchuan, Hongnong, Hedong, and Xingyang have all been renamed. Nanyang is called "Front Team", Hanoi is called "Back Team", and Yingchuan is called "Zuo Team". ", Hongnong is called "You Team", Hedong is called "Zhao Team", and Xingyang is called "Qi Team", collectively known as Yuzhou Six Teams.

This thing doesn't sound like an official name at all. Although the word "team" here is the provincial word for "tunnel", which means smooth, it is too easy to be misunderstood.

If there is some reasoning for this point, some people have changed their names so much that it is difficult for people to understand how their brains grow. For example, Wuxi thought Wuxi was not good, so he changed it to Youxi.
Similarly, Guyuan County in Shangdang was changed to Gujin, and Yuli County in Taiyuan was changed to Yuhe.Chen Liudong Hun County was changed to Dongming, and even the famous Fan Yang was changed to Shunyin in the future.

Perhaps because the name change was so smooth, Wang Mang changed the name not only domestically but also abroad. He sent Yan You to attack Goguryeo, and then he felt that the high character was not good, so he changed it to "Xiaguli".The Xiongnu Shanyu was also changed to Jiangnu Shanyu.

You must know that the Xiongnu had maintained peace with the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years at that time, and there was basically no war between the two.But after the name change, the flames of war were reignited.

The most ridiculous thing is that some places have been changed five times in a year, and it is too late to engrave the chapter, let alone use it for daily use.When the government publishes the announcement, it has to be marked after the place name that this is a certain place in the old Han Dynasty, otherwise everyone will not understand it at all.

The name Chang Le Wei Young written on the tile that Liang En and the others found was related to the name change of the psychopath. He changed Chang'an to Chang'an, and at the same time changed the common word Changle to Changle.

There is no doubt that this kind of cerebral palsy-like name change caused a lot of problems, so when Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu reunified the country, all these messy name changes were changed back.

Therefore, the tiles with the characters of Changle Weiyang will not last long, it is only the period between the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, so this kind of writing tiles allows Liang En to judge when the palace was built.

But then again, thanks to the fact that this place is far away from the Central Plains, considering the difficulty of firing bricks and tiles, these outdated tiles were left behind, and then became a historical witness.

But now, Liang En can use this tile to roughly determine the year when the palace was built, and then speculate on the specific identities of the people living here.

(End of this chapter)