Chapter 321: Abolition of Cheap Status
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
The people below were completely detonated, they knelt on the ground, let out bursts of cheers, and even many old people were wiping their tears, this scene was so far away from them, so far away that it was almost like a dream.
A Han country, a world that no longer needs to have ugly braids, and an era that can revive the Han family's clothes!
Although there are still many great Confucians who are still loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but more scholars still secretly hide a Han family in their hearts, and now they see this scene, they can't help but cry, more than 70 years of sorrow, in today's dissipation.
Looking at the figure on the Temple of Heaven, the shouts of long live under the audience are getting higher and higher, I have to say that Ning Yu's series of measures in front of him have really brought many benefits to the people, so they have made the people's hearts return.
"In the past, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty had a destiny to return, raised troops to attack the Yuan, and finally became the master of the people. Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Central Plains people with lofty ideals generously went to righteousness before and after, so that there was the rise of the Han Dynasty, and the continuation of my Chinese Taoist system, so as not to make the clan extinct. ”
Ning Yu looked around at everyone and read aloud, the clear voice echoed on the Temple of Heaven, only to hear that everyone was also excited, and said clearly, my Great Chu inherited the great unification of the Ming Dynasty, and will also establish the Chinese Taoist system.
"Bye!"
The ceremonial officials shouted loudly, and the guards standing under the Temple of Heaven shouted in turn, until the outermost soldiers, the officials, along with the people, knelt down like waves, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and praised long live.
After Ning Yu prayed for heaven and earth at the moment, even if he officially completed the procedure, he became the emperor from then on, and at this time, Ning Yu was only nineteen years old, he took a deep breath and looked at the people in the audience.
"The return of the Mandate of Heaven is tied to all the people, and the law of all the people lies in the "King James Constitution of Great Chu"! Make a covenant with the kings, a covenant with the peoples, a covenant with heaven and earth! ”
Cui Wancai, Li Fu, Lu Yizhong, Ning Zhongjing, Dong Ce and others looked at Ning Yu, they took the lead and knelt on the ground again, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and the court officials and people behind them also knelt on the ground, shouting long live.
Basically, this is the last time they can kneel, because in the new "King James Great Chu Constitution", kneeling will be completely deposed in daily life, except for the new emperor ascending the throne and the death of the emperor, no one needs to kneel again, and Ning Yu is only the age of a weak crown now, it is basically impossible to walk in front of them, and there will be no kneeling again.
Whether it is to buy people's hearts or to be sincere, Ning Yu's actions are all impressive, in terms of reforming the old and making the new, this emperor is afraid that he wants to change everything, of course, for most people, it is naturally the best not to kneel.
As an emperor, this enthronement is the first step, but it is also the easiest step, because after Ning Yu ascends the throne, he will immediately face some other new problems, such as the year name has not yet been decided, as well as a series of etiquette regulations of the emperor, and then there is the structure of the inner court and the outer court, as well as the official system, grades, salaries, and the most important rewards, all of which need to be determined immediately.
After the enthronement ceremony, Ning Yu followed the etiquette and returned from the mound to the Fengtian Temple of the Forbidden City, which was the last step of the enthronement ceremony, and the future imperial city of Great Chu was such a centuries-old Forbidden City of the former Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of which, the scale of the Forbidden City in Beijing today is not as big as the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and its architectural form is exactly the same as the Forbidden City in Nanjing. The back court takes the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace as the core, there are Chunhe Palace in the east, there are Rouyi Palace, Fengxian Palace, Dashan Palace, Ninety-Five Flying Dragon Palace, West Palace in the west, and the six palaces in the east and west on both sides.
Especially when the Forbidden City was built at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately asked for everything to be simple, "but to be stable, not gorgeous, all the carvings are wonderful, everything is not used, but simple and strong, can be passed on forever." Therefore, the entire Forbidden City was built very strongly, but unfortunately, the Forbidden City of Nanjing went through many hardships later.
Needless to say, the first time, after the Jingyan Change, Zhu Di conquered Nanjing, at that time, because of the war, caused the Fengtian Temple to collapse in the flames, although it was restored again, but later Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, which led to the entire Nanjing Forbidden City fell into decay.
Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongguang regime was destroyed by the Qing army, and the walls of the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty at that time were all bad, the walls fell down and the houses were decaying, and they almost became the refuge of beggars. There are many broken glazed tiles, and there are few rotten jade window lattices. The dancing danqi finches often go to the court, go straight to the palace gate and artemisia all the way, and live a few beggars who are hungry. ”
After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although the capital of Beijing was built, but also attached great importance to Nanjing, the Bauhinia City was changed to the Eight Banners Full City, if it was just that, later when Kangxi toured the south, he had ordered to remove 120,000 glazed tiles on the Forbidden City of Nanjing, as well as carved dragon pillars and nine dragon caisson wells and other things, all used to build Fayu Temple on Putuo Mountain.
After the Fu Han army captured Jiangning, although it intended to protect the Forbidden City, the original desolate scene had already existed, so Ning Yu had to send a large number of craftsmen and prisoners of war to rebuild the Forbidden City, which took about half a year to renovate, so he was able to ascend the throne in Nanjing.
After Ning Yu ascended the throne and became the emperor, these others also arranged first, Ning Zhongyuan, as his father, was naturally respected as the emperor, and the ancestors of the Ning family were also respected as the emperor, and the old lady was respected as the queen mother, Mrs. Ning was also respected as the queen mother, Cui Ji was the queen, and Chen Caiwei was promoted to the concubine, which can be regarded as having their own joys.
In addition to them, Ning Yu's two younger brothers were also named kings, but their names were not noble, one was King Yu and the other was King Shen, which could be regarded as joyful, but because the clan management regulations of Da Chu had not yet come out, there was no special treatment.
As for the other ministers and generals, their rewards will be placed at the back, and when everything is sorted out, a big reward will be given, which can be regarded as a reward for everyone's work.
Ning Yu sat in the Fengtian Palace, sitting on the throne, he stroked the carvings on the dragon chair, and then looked at the jubilant courtiers below, and suddenly felt a little emotional, no wonder everyone wants to be the emperor, this all-echoing taste can simply make people feel obsessed, and there is also a bit of self-satisfaction at the moment.
"Enlighten the emperor, the new dynasty is established, when the yuan is changed, and the era name should be re-set to show the people."
Soon, before Ning Yu could rest for a while, this thing came, Cui Wancai stood below, holding a fluorene board and came out to play, reminding Ning Yu not to worry about himself first, this work has not been done yet.
Ning Yu coughed lightly, "What Cui Qing said is true, this era name is naturally an extremely critical matter, I think that King Wen is above, and Yu Zhao is in the sky." Although Zhou is an old state, its life is renewed. Among them, the word "Restoration" is in line with the current situation of my Great Chu, so how about calling it innovation? ”
After listening to the Wenchen below, although some people wanted to say something, but looking at Ning Yu's eyes, they stopped, they had opposed it on the country name at the beginning, and now if they oppose it on the year name, I am afraid that no matter how generous the emperor is, he will not be able to stand it, so no one objected to it on the year name, so it was passed.
Ning Yu saw that no one objected to this matter, and his heart was also secretly refreshed, but he remembered his previous incident, and immediately said loudly: "I am a great Chu Dingli, and I should benefit all the people." I believe that the shortcomings of the people at present, especially the lowly status, are even worse, so the first thing in the first year of the reform is to abolish the lowly status in order to solve the hardships of the people's livelihood in the world. ”
When the ministers heard this, they did not oppose the old-fashioned people, but agreed one after another, in fact, mainly because in this era, there were many people who opposed the lowly status, because this thing was really inhumane.
The so-called untouchable system, is also a kind of system that has been circulated for a long time, has been existing since the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty divided people into two categories, good people and untouchables, good people needless to say, untouchables are divided into two kinds, one is the official untouchables, including official slaves and maids, official households, miscellaneous households, gongle and Taichang sound people, etc. One is the private untouchables, including private slaves and maids, subordinates, guest girls, and portions. Both of these untouchables are untouchables, and their status is almost equal to that of cattle and horses.
Later, in the Song Dynasty, the system of cheap nationality was loosened, and the slaves and maids at that time would be protected by the law, and the master could not kill the slaves and maids at will, otherwise they would be severely punished. However, by the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the system of untouchability had been strengthened, and even the Mongol slavery system was added to it.
The emergence of this system led to the emergence of many untouchables in the Ming Dynasty, such as the existence of a kind of degenerate people in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, commonly known as the great poverty, whose people are not beggars, nor necessarily poor, the reason why these people have become untouchables is mainly because Zhu Yuanzhang degraded many of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, and Fang Guozhen's subordinates to degraded to degenerates.
There is also a kind called Lehu, this kind of cheap has a longer history, like if the people are guilty of robbery and murder, in addition to the first and subordinate are all beheaded, the wife is of the same nationality, will be worthy of Lehu, even if there is no killing, and the stolen less than five horses, the leader will be beheaded, and the wife will also become Lehu, and after the Jingjing, many court officials who supported Emperor Jianwen at that time, their wives and daughters will also be demoted to Lehu and serve as official prostitutes.
In addition, there is also a type of servant, that is, children and grandchildren will become domestic slaves, and there are also Tanhu who live on the ship all the year round, and these people are almost all reduced to untouchables for various reasons.
After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, these systems were almost strengthened again, and even some of the Eight Banners were added at that time, and these untouchables were passed down from generation to generation, and they could not change, could not be officials, could not take the imperial examination, and could not marry ordinary people, so it can be said that once they become untouchables, their children and grandchildren will also passively become untouchables.
Ning Yu had the idea of abolishing the untouchables at a very early age, and he had repeatedly revealed his intentions, and after he ascended the throne this time, the abolition of the untouchable system has also become a good move for him to win the hearts of the people, and it will be fully implemented in the entire Great Chu at present, and by solving the problem of the untouchables in the provinces, he will be shrouded in another layer of aura.
Of course, in addition to the voice of the people, Ning Yu also has another idea, that is, to consolidate the policy of apportioning the land to the mu and the policy of the gentry to pay the grain as an errand and one person, because there is a strong connection between these three policies.
Strictly speaking, in the past, many people would choose to become hidden households, that is, they were not in the control of the government, mainly in order to evade the Ding tax, so that many large families who were exempted from paying taxes could collect a large number of hidden households to take refuge, so that the imperial court could not grasp this part of the population, which was extremely unfavorable to the rule of the imperial court.
Of course, the implementation of the apportionment into the mu can allow more poor people to come out directly, and no longer have to become hidden households, the reason is that they no longer have to pay Ding Yin, so at this time, the abolition of the untouchable can be better inspiring, and it can also promote a large number of hidden households to be re-exposed, which can be grasped by the government, which is beneficial to the implementation of the new policy later.
It's hard to say whether other people know or not, but for Cui Wancai, Ning Zhongjing and others, their hearts are indeed clear, of course, they naturally support this policy, which can not only make the emperor gain a good reputation by abolishing the thousand-year-old lowly status system, but also allow the ministers to grasp more population.
However, like the previous policy, although the abolition of the untouchable system was conducive to the rule of the imperial court, it was another blow to the gentry, who could only pose a threat if they had enough population.
Cui Wancai said softly: "The minister thinks that this policy is very feasible, and it should be implemented as soon as possible to solve the great difficulties of the people in the world." No matter what the other ministers thought in their hearts, Cui Wancai at this time had an attitude of 10,000 support, which was really an act that could save thousands of people, which could be called benevolence and righteousness.
Ning Yu was also very happy in his heart, but he also understood that everything was too much, and he had completed this major event today, so he was no longer in a hurry to do other work, and began to say that he was going to leave work early.
"That's all too much, and if you do anything else, you can discuss it tomorrow....... I still have some personal matters to deal with, so I won't leave you Aiqing. ”
But the courtiers have just passed the addiction to the court, where are they willing to let the emperor leave now? One by one, they came out to dissuade them, and some people even used the reason that the Son of Heaven had no selfish affairs to block Ning Yu in the main hall and not allow him to get off work.
This made Ning Yu anxious, but on the day of today's accession to the throne, it is not good to punish too much, and his brows furrowed slightly, "The rest of the things, we can discuss it tomorrow, today's enthronement ceremony has passed, and I invite Zhuqing to go down, I am going back to the palace." ”
After finishing speaking, Ning Yu no longer cared about anything else, but got up and left on the spot, of course, when he left, he also began to think in his heart, he couldn't live like this in the future....... It seems that the Great Chu version of the cabinet has to be made in advance......