sweeping the world

Chapter 775 This is the rhythm of killing all the officials

There is a very strict process for becoming the highest and legal ruler in the Xia Dynasty. Proclaiming the emperor only declares the status of becoming the ruler of the country. What should be taken more seriously than proclaiming the emperor is ascending to the throne of emperor.

In that process, the emperor must be ascended first, which indicates that he will be recognized by the heavens, and then the ceremony of proclaiming the emperor will be held.If one proclaims himself emperor without ascending to the throne of emperor, or proclaims emperor first and then ascends the throne of emperor, it is either madness before the end of the separatist regime, or it is purely funny.

There are quite a few people in Zhu Xia who dare to claim the emperor casually, but there are not many people who dare to take the throne at will, especially those who have gained power in troubled times. Whether they are heroes or heroes, the process they follow is to become king first, Then go through other processes according to the development of the situation.

The reason why the separatist regimes did not dare to ascend to the position of emperor at will is because they knew what was going on with them. The position of emperor is a sign of power bestowed by heaven. The status of the emperor is nothing, but if he is not recognized as the emperor, the consequences will definitely be more serious than not being recognized as the emperor.

Although there is a fear of God's wrath due to superstition, things are really not that simple.

Some people may not understand why the identity of the Son of Heaven should be created since they are the Emperor. What must be said is that the Emperor is the Emperor, the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, and there is nothing wrong with the Emperor being the ruler. .

The rulers of Zhuxia must have two recognized authorities. If the emperor is external, the emperor is the core.The emperor has the power to govern the country, but the son of heaven must have an identity to control the people. Where the law can't control, what law does the patriarch need to deal with the clansmen?Especially in a place with a special culture like Zhuxia, the patriarch is equal to the head of the family, and that kind of affection is really not so easy to explain.

If the first generation of entrepreneurs of a certain dynasty did not rule the entire territory of the old land of Zhuxia, if they wanted to ascend to the throne of emperor, they would not dare to have the face to ascend to the throne of emperor, but the subsequent successors would not have to worry about that.

Zhu Xia had an emperor long ago. Although the unscrupulous Xia Dynasty is a prince, another identity is the emperor. The Shang Dynasty is the same, and it is the Zhou Dynasty... and even the subsequent dynasties, so other dynasties may appear. Fault, the "Son of Heaven" really did not have a fault in the dynasty of Zhuxia, and it has been continued.

"The widow's ascension to the throne of the emperor is to lead the people of China to attack the barbarians." Liu Yan was actually disgusted by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at that time, and his ascension to the throne of the emperor was not an act of anger: "How can He De, a child in the south, be the emperor?"

What can Ji Chang say?I am not a flatterer myself, and I have read a lot since I became rich, so I can only quote the classics to admit the correctness of what Liu Yan said.

Not only did they lose half of the Central Plains, but they also lost their subjects and even their ancestral temple. The status of Sima's family was definitely the worst in all dynasties. If future generations knew about that period of history, who wouldn't gnash their teeth at Sima's family?

Liu Yan and Ji Chang were no longer in the palace city. They had brought some guards with them. They were originally in casual clothes, and they left the palace city without changing their clothes.

There is an empty square on all sides outside the palace city. The ground is paved with bricks and stones. There are no trees and flowers planted. Instead, there is a pillar carved with animals at a distance. Those pillars are actually the bearings for the brazier. Used to provide light at night.This is a necessary emptying area, and those pillars are really not for aesthetics.

There will be no less than 20 guards around Liu Yan. As the prime minister, Ji Chang actually has personal guards arranged by the country. Including them, there are close to 30 guards. He has already attracted attention when he walked out of the palace.After all, it was already afternoon, and it was not easy for two or thirty people to leave the palace at this time.

After the square outside the palace city is the urban area of ​​New Chang'an. The mansions near the palace city are basically very large mansions, and they are divided according to the roads. Every mansion has a wall. They walked along the wall for ten minutes or so. The wall shows how big the enclosed mansion is.

Some trees were transplanted on both sides of the road, mostly willows, and there are green belts. Even the road itself is made of bricks and stones, and there are pavilions for stopping at a distance. The construction style of the pavilions is very pure Zhuxia characteristics. There are also some stone piers and a stone table inside.

Xu Zheng and Li Tan were in a gazebo. They were chatting, but they saw Liu Yan and Ji Chang from a distance. They wanted to stand up and walk over, but Liu Yan waved his hands to stop them. Their guards turned towards Liu Yan Get down on one knee and bow your head.

The residences of the important ministers and nobles of the Han Dynasty were originally located in this area. I don't know why Xu Zheng and Li Tan, whose mansions are adjacent to each other, did not choose to stay at home, instead in the pavilion by the road.

After leaving the high-end residential area, there is a leisure area. Liu Yan and Ji Chang are heading towards the east of the city.There happened to be a racecourse in this area. From a distance, you could see a very large building. If you really wanted to say something, it was actually a kind of building similar to a gymnasium, the difference was that it was antique.

"The widows allow them to have blood to stay. It is based on the theory of Yan and Huang, and they will continue to feed on blood." Liu Yan has the confidence to say this. There is really no such thing as a civil war in any previous dynasty. The ancestral temple is left behind, and sacrifices are allowed when the season comes.He thought of something, and said puzzledly: "They are not good at governing the country, but they are very good at colonizing."

Ji Chang smiled wryly and remained silent. Of course, the direct descendants of the Sima family were to be monitored, but some offshoots went to the Indochina Peninsula. I heard that they were doing well?

The first emperor's decision to leave the branch of the clan of the six kingdoms was actually not benevolent or soft-handed, and it was not because he wanted to leave future troubles. It was because Zhuxia had this rule.And this is the core value of Zhu Xia's "rituals". It is to respect the ancestors, especially the accomplished people should not have blood food from the descendants. Counting Wei, Zhao, Han, Qi, Chu, and Yan, they are really respectful to Zhu Xia. Xia has contributed.

In the history of Zhuxia, the most unconfident but ascended to the throne of the emperor is the Zhao family, the leader of Song Dynasty.The Zhao family didn't remember their kindness and bullied the orphans and widows first, so there was nothing to say, but the two brothers of the Zhao family also had a big drama of "candle light and ax shadow", and Zhao Kuangyin's line was wiped out by Zhao Guangyi's line.

The status of the Zhao family, the leader of the Song Dynasty, came in that way, and there was no external achievement, and even the old land of the Han family could not be recovered. As a result, it was difficult for the Zhao family emperors in the Song Dynasty to have a strong one. Some of the problems left over from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, fearing that military generals will seize power, and they have no real merits but ascended to the throne of the emperor, really don't have the confidence to challenge the civil official group!
"The ministers will definitely find clues." Ji Chang gritted his teeth and assured, "A notice has been posted, and people have been sent to search for the Great Confucian."

Of course, Liu Yan's proclaiming ceremony could not follow the template of the Sima family. He didn't usurp someone's throne, but just completed the exorcism of the Hulu and the restoration of China.Therefore, it is not simply to despise the Sima family, it is really impossible to follow the ceremony of the Sima family.

"Great Confucianism?" Liu Yan said slightly confused: "Didn't all the great Confucian scholars come to Chang'an?"

"There are some hermits who haven't come out yet." Ji Chang said distressedly, "Either it's inconvenient to pass the news, or the hermits are not moved by fame and fortune."

Liu Yan has always been sneering at hermits who are praised by the people. Since they are hermits, they should be unknown. Does anyone know that they are still called hermits?Why don't you be moved by fame and fortune, Nima is waiting for enough people to invite, so that you can create momentum for yourself!
Liu Yan is very wary of those people who know everyone but still claim to be hermits.What he knows is that all hermits of this type are determined to do great things, and it's fine if they don't come out. If they become official, they will definitely stir up the situation.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, people who hid themselves to study, and thought they had the ability to start making a name for themselves, the appearance of that kind of people was the beginning of the country's turmoil.They may have great ambitions, or they may be quite capable, but after the pre-Han period, no one did anything beneficial to the country, and usually planted the scourge of national subjugation.

"The sky does not give birth to XX, and the age is as long as the night?" Liu Yan kept sneering: "The people who create momentum and invite fame, even if they are talented, so what."

Ji Chang didn't understand why Liu Yan had such an attitude. He originally wanted to ask for instructions, and then went to invite some hermits with enough etiquette, but now he had to stop that idea temporarily.

Liu Yan had to be wary of those guys. He knew of many examples. Anyone who had the confidence to do that and had the power to do it would really end badly for reformers and the country after the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

The Han Dynasty does not need that big move of comprehensive changes. What it wants is to continue to lay the foundation. However, laying the foundation is definitely not something to do vigorously. Not to mention Yurun Silent, but it really requires enough patience and perseverance, but those Those who create publicity and invite publicity have the mentality of making big news.

Today's Han Kingdom does not need a whip, and there is no room for spreading the whip. Liu Yan doesn't want anyone to just jump out like that.

The two of them walked to the vicinity of the Temple of Heaven. It was an artificial mountain rammed with earth, and its shape was not much different from that of a pyramid.

The schedule for proclaiming the emperor is approaching, but the center of the Han Dynasty is being overwhelmed, and it is regarded as two extremely anxious things together with natural disasters.

There are really not many things that can be used for reference now. There is a model of usurping the throne, and another model of proclaiming the emperor. These two models are inherited from the previous dynasty that was replaced, and they are not suitable for Liu Yan in the ceremony of proclaiming the emperor. Use, Liu Bang's model of proclaiming emperor can be used for reference, but the problem is that no relevant records can be found.

Yes, Liu Bang's title of emperor can only be used as a reference, and it really cannot be completely imitated. That is the premise determined by a completely different background.

Liu Yan is not going to overthrow anyone with the princes in the world, and he does not need the approval of those princes, and some princes cannot go through the process of acknowledging their dominance.

The more significant and important a ceremony is, the less it can be messed up. There is no such thing as deletion, deletion or subtraction. It is equivalent to changing one place and everything will be messed up.And no one can afford the responsibility for chaos.

All Ji Chang knew was that Taichang Cui Xing was about to be forced to death by the proclaiming emperor ceremony.

Cui Xing is both Taichang and Liu Yan's father-in-law. Taichang is an official in charge of etiquette, sacrifices and selection of doctors, and also in charge of Taishi, stargazing, calendar and many other departments.This is an official position that is not lucrative at all, but the responsibilities it bears are extremely important. Once something goes wrong, it will not be a trivial matter.

Not only Cui Xingzai was frantically looking up history books, but also the important officials of the Central Committee, one by one, would rush into the piles of history books whenever they had time. They did not want the country they helped to establish to cause trouble at the important ascension ceremony. What a joke, otherwise you will be ridiculed forever.

It's the grand ceremony.The difference from the Enthronement Ceremony is that the Enthronement Ceremony is the first time for entrepreneurs to ascend to the throne. Doesn't "pole" mean the top, the highest point, and the end?It represents a person becoming the supreme existence, and the emperor's words are becoming the ancestor.Ascension to the throne is to take over the baton from the predecessor and continue to hold the rights handed down by the predecessor.

Zhuxia suffered catastrophe many times, and many classics were lost or destroyed again and again, and only a small part of the classics were handed down.

The selection was carried out after the pre-Qin eradicated the wilderness and the Liuhe. That selection destroyed a group that the Qin Empire believed should not exist.

After the collapse of the Qin Empire, Xiang Yu not only burned the unfinished Afang Palace, but also caught Shiqu Pavilion, the largest library in the Qin Empire, to burn it. After Liu Bang established the Han Kingdom, the emperors of the Han family had to slowly collect classics from the people. It was also recorded silently by some scholars relying on memory.

There was a long cultural movement in the early Han Dynasty. It was a common practice in the Western Han Dynasty to create "fake books" under the guise of someone's name. For example, "Shangshu" was produced by Kong Anguo, the tenth grandson of Confucius. Whether it is the "Shangshu" from ancient times is anyone's guess, but the Confucian family controls public opinion, so it must be.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Confucian scholars at that time began to engage in the cultural movement again. They were more bullish than their predecessors in the Western Han Dynasty. Everyone was the lord of the family or a descendant. It is common to overthrow some books and crack down on fake books. I am used to some great Confucian scholars getting together to write by myself, and then yelling "that is so-and-so's original, or a unique copy, I found it in a crevice in a certain ravine", anyone who dares to question it first Spray it for a while before killing it, and you have to ask "who else", and then ask again after killing it in this cycle, until no one refuses to accept it.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhuo left Luoyang, a fire came and burned the whole city. Cai Yong, who was in charge of the classics, saved some of them. What was more tragic was that Dong Zhuo was killed later. Wang Yun was killed.

Before Cai Yong's death, he distributed his wealth...uh, it was to distribute the ancient books kept for the Han Dynasty. Among them, the Chen family, Xun family and Deng family were moved by trucks. Righteous Cong Rebellion".

The "Yicong Rebellion" was actually a few days after Wang Yun lost his prestige and the whole clan was executed. Li Jue and Guo Bang took over the power before Boss Dong. They must want to take revenge on those who killed their boss, the most arrogant Wang Yun is definitely going to kill his entire family and exterminate his entire clan.

Later, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty fled, and Chang'an fell into chaos, causing some Hu people who worked for the Han Dynasty to loot and burn. This is the "Yi Cong Rebellion".During this turmoil, Liu Bao of the Southern Huns not only snatched away Cai Zhaoji, but also burned Cai's family by the way, destroying those classics that were not scattered by Cai Yong.

In the era when bamboo slips were used as the main text carrier, many classics were simply orphans. Once destroyed, they would be lost. Liu Yan built a new country on top of the ruins. The orthodox ascension ceremony is really too difficult.

(End of this chapter)