At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 1149 The Miracle of One Thousand and 150 Nine Soldiers Didn't Happen After All

In fact, this matter is really quite difficult.

To say that they did not break the law, these people are indeed taking advantage of the loopholes of national policies and are suspected of deception.

Let's talk about breaking the law, these people didn't deliberately seek to break the law, they did it when they were desperate.

Moreover, there have been many such cases in the local area for a while. There can be dozens of such families in one county. They don’t know how to fine them, and they don’t know how to get the money back. .

Faced with the prevalence of this situation, Guo Peng also had a headache for a long time after learning about it. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Huanglongdian meeting, he decided to partially revise the policies of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

He wants to establish a hierarchy, and only those who have a certain status can marry to make a big deal. This status is determined according to the amount of land in the family and whether someone is an official in the court.

Only people with such status and status can make a big fuss and hold a big wedding.

People at the lower level are not allowed to hold weddings in a big way. The size of the wedding banquet and the number of participants are limited. The governments at the village and township levels are strictly supervised.

It cannot be stopped or restricted, otherwise there will be complaints.

Moreover, times have changed. The current tyrants are not the kind of local rich men who made a fortune in the Western Han Dynasty. The current tyrants are all big tycoons with a solid family background accumulated by generations, and they will not ruin their family just because of a wedding.

But this wedding custom should not be changed.

Let officials, tyrants, and other well-established families spend a lot of money, and relevant practitioners in the region can also make a fortune at that time. In a sense, it can be regarded as a state-led robbing of the rich and helping the poor.

There is always something to eat, there is always something to drink, there is always some decorations and all kinds of utensils for a wedding, and they cost a lot of money.

This money must be spent outside, and it is difficult to digest internally. Once this money flows, it can create economic value.

Create a hierarchical system to satisfy their vanity and aloofness, and they may spend more to show their status.

And in the future, if someone completes the counterattack in life and can make a big deal of it, he will definitely be more willing to spend a lot of money to hold a wedding to show his status.

There are not many things that can make such a person willing to spend a lot of money, and getting married is one of them.

Just like when Guo and Cao Lan got married, the money spent by the old Cao's family could buy three Guo's family properties back then.

Therefore, regarding the customs of holding weddings, Guo Peng imitated the imperial decree issued by Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to inform the whole country, and made it popular throughout the country.

Only those with status and status can do big things. Ordinary people can just celebrate a little, and control it within the standard range. They are not allowed to violate the laws of the country. If there is any violation, they will be severely punished.

Those with status should also make detailed regulations according to their social status and official position, what level can they hold, what kind of wedding, and so on.

This order was promulgated against the background of the large-scale debate at the Huanglongdian meeting, and it really didn't receive much attention, so it was promulgated directly and passed through the whole country.

In addition, Guo Peng also re-determined the New Year's Day and the days when officials take vacations and bathes.

For example, thinking of the hard work of officials, the one day off for ten days was changed to one day off for seven days.

The New Year's Day was changed from five days to six days.

The rest of several major traditional festivals has been changed from one day to three days.

The increase of some rest and holiday time can be regarded as an explanation for the reduction of the burden on officials, and it did not let them die from overwork.

Then it focused on discussing the rules of people taking concubines.

Monogamy is naturally an iron law that cannot be changed, and Guo Peng has also re-regulated the system of concubines.

In this era, low-level Li Shu are not qualified to take concubines. Those who can take concubines are either state officials or scholars, and even ordinary landlords and powerful people cannot take concubines. Guo Peng proposed that this standard should be appropriately relaxed for the sake of family succession .

Therefore, he stipulated that even if ordinary Li Shu people have no official status, if they have no sons at the age of 40, they can take a concubine to carry on the family line.

Regulations must also be made within the ruling class.

For example, ordinary officials can only have one concubine, and non-rank officials, no matter how high their official position is, even if they are ministers or staff officers, they can only have three concubines at most.

There are five major levels of dukes and uncles. Every time you upgrade to a title, you can add a concubine. The highest-ranking duke can have eight concubines.

Further up are the princes and emperors.

Guo Peng added that the prince can only have eight concubines at most, and the only one who is not restricted is the emperor himself.

This regulation is not retroactive, and those who take the wrong number of concubines before the decree is promulgated will not be held accountable.

This rule continues the stipulation of the Han Dynasty [Gongcheng is entrusted with eight concubines], and basically does not exceed people's ideas.

That is to say, the emperor delegated the qualifications for taking concubines to the lower-level Lishu people, which made some people feel dissatisfied.

But under the general environment, this issue is not qualified to be debated.

So Guo Peng once again issued a decree to promulgate this rule.

Taking this opportunity, Guo Peng also stipulated that for example, tables, chairs and benches should not be regarded as things used by barbarians, but invented and manufactured by the emperor himself, purely created by the Han family, and should be recognized and not discriminated against.

Then it stipulates that the children of officials and nobles should enter Taixue to receive collective education, as well as the content of collective education, including sex education and so on.

On other issues, Guo Peng did not challenge or change the Baihu Discussion System formed after the Baihuguan Conference.

He gave time to those who were dying, to make their last struggle.

He doesn't care anyway.

For now, the results of the debate on the core topic of the Huanglongdian meeting have been put on Guo Peng's table by Cai Yong.

Guo Peng only needs to make a decision to decide which five of the fourteen families will be preserved and which nine will be dismissed.

According to the current debate, the five families selected by Guo Peng are not that strong. Only the Kong family and the Huan family have the upper hand, and the other three families are at a disadvantage. If you want to talk about debate, it is completely impossible to debate the rest of the family. Law.

It seems that they are doing whatever it takes to survive.

On the big square outside the palace, for their own benefit, the scholars have staged martial arts. They have fought in groups more than ten times, and more than 100 people have been arrested and they still haven't stopped.

The core interests are passive, they panic, don't want to panic, and try to put pressure on the emperor, forcing the emperor to take the [correct] path to protect their interests.

However, is His Majesty the current emperor a person who will easily admit defeat?

"Father, as far as I can see right now, the five family laws chosen by my father are not dominant. If my father forcibly designates these five family laws to win, it may cause large-scale protests, cause divisions among scholars, and cause turmoil in the court.”

Guo Jin glanced at the debate results compiled by Cai Yong, and expressed her opinion to the calm Guo Peng with some worry.

Guo Peng smiled.

"Did the division of scholars and the turmoil in the court begin today?"

"No."

Guo Jin shook his head.

"Isn't that enough? Some people can still handle affairs, some people are still handling government affairs, and the army is not in chaos yet, so what are you afraid of?"

"The son is not afraid, but worried that they will slander his father."

Guo Jin frowned: "These people have always been bold, and I don't know how they will slander my father when they are in a hurry. What's more... If they are in a hurry, they may even gather a crowd to rebel!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder and couldn't help laughing.

"Ajin, if they really gathered a crowd to rebel, I would really be thankful. I have made my posture so clear. They haven't rebelled yet, and they still have to argue and argue in the Yellow Dragon Palace. What does that mean? That they dare not rebel."

Guo Peng pointed to the army outside Luoyang.

"The army is the biggest source of confidence for me to dare to do this. The elite soldiers who are invincible in all battles, Ajin, the elite soldiers who are invincible in all battles, do they dare to rebel? Dare to rebel will save me a lot of things. I am upright. After killing them, no one can say anything, so why bother with the Yellow Dragon Palace now?"

Guo Jin understood what Guo Peng meant.

"Father, what do you mean, they are just putting on a show to hide their inner weakness and fear?"

"Dogs that can bite people don't bark. They bark so happily, it can only be said that they dare not bite people."

Guo Peng said with a sneer: "They dare not bite me, but I dare to eat them. Ah Jin, just watch and see how I deal with them."

On March 28th of the sixth year of Yande, the Huanglongdian meeting officially ended. Emperor Guo Peng visited Huanglongdian and announced the results of some discussions that were not related to the core issues.

Marriage, education, desks and chairs, official vacations, and regulations on taking concubines.

These regulations are not painful or itchy, and have nothing to do with the overall situation. For the overall situation, they are meaningless, so everyone is waiting, and they are all waiting for the most critical core issues.

Who can stay and who can't.

Some people have the bottom line in their hearts, and some people are still holding vain illusions. If they feel that they have the upper hand, the emperor might compromise.

Inside and outside the Yellow Dragon Hall, countless people were waiting for news, and almost everyone was waiting for these crucial news.

Which of the five schools can become the orthodox sage law and survive forever?

Is it those five?

Or did the emperor choose to compromise because he couldn't stand the heavy pressure?

Will a miracle happen?

The miracle of the scholars did not happen after all.

The five family laws that can be preserved are respectively.

"Yan's Gongyang Spring and Autumn" handed down by the Xun family in Yingchuan.

"Mao Poetry" handed down by Kong's family in Lu County.

"Ouyang Shangshu" handed down by Long Kanghuan's family.

"Zhou Guanli" handed down by Jia's family in Pingling, Fufeng.

"Meng Shiyi" handed down by the Yuan family in Runan.

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The soldiers were desperate.

Nothing has changed, their month of protests and efforts has had no effect.

The emperor played a secret operation in front of them, announcing on the spot that the laws of the five great masters would be regarded as the laws of saints and established as the official doctrine.

Then the emperor also announced the re-establishment of the Doctor of Five Classics, and the abolition of the doctors of the other nine families of family law, and they will never be re-established.

Since then, the Five Classics have been fixed as these Five Classics.

All students who want to take the road of investigation and become an official must learn these five classics, which cannot be changed. They can also learn other family laws, but other family laws will lose their official status and will not be officially recognized.

You learn, but it's meaningless, because you can't rely on these family laws to be an official.

They can exist as layman's law, but it's hard to say whether anyone is willing to learn it.

This is not what Guo is concerned about.

The Xun family, the Kong family, the Huan family, the Jia family and the Yuan family were overjoyed, and the relevant people bowed down one after another to express their sincere gratitude and respect to His Majesty the Emperor.

The representatives of the rest of the opposition were in mourning.

After a suffocating silence, an old man with a gray beard from the Fufeng Ma family stood up tremblingly, walked up to Guo Peng, and stood looking at Guo Peng.

He was old, and according to the tradition of respecting the old and loving the young, he did not need to kneel in front of the emperor.

But it was a little rude for him to look directly at the emperor, so Su Yuan quickly reminded him not to be so rude.

"Ma Gong, this is the front of the palace, don't be rude."

"Xiao Shu'an dares to be presumptuous!"

The old man from the Ma family yelled and cursed, making Su Yuan dumbfounded.

"Su Yuan, step back."

Guo Peng asked Su Yuan to back down expressionlessly, and looked at the old Ma family with indifferent eyes.

The old Ma family continued to look directly at Guo Peng without any fear.

"Your Majesty, do you dare to ask if Your Majesty thinks that the hard work I have been debating over the past month is in vain? Is it nothing in His Majesty's eyes that I have debated word by word? I waited for the words and sentences passed down by our ancestors for hundreds of years. Is it nothing? What exactly are the words of a saint in His Majesty's eyes?"

Guo Peng took a deep breath.

"Ma Gong, why is your debate meaningless? Isn't this all written down?"

"That's all?"

The old man Ma's face was full of disbelief.