"Little Fuzi!" Zhang Lingyang shouted to his side and ordered: "Send an edict to the military cabinet and cabinet to discuss the list of martyrs buried in Bishan Cemetery."

And notify the Ministry of Rites to do all the signs such as moving the grave and burial, and work out the memorial etiquette! ”

"Slaves obey!"

After walking around the mountain for most of the day, Zhang Lingyang returned to the palace to rest.

The next day, Qi Cheng, the descendant of the Duke of Ningguo, who was then the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly entered the palace and asked Zhang Lingyang for instructions: "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to ask, when will the tomb relocation and burial ceremony be held?" ”

"Let's celebrate Qingming Festival next year!" After thinking about it, Zhang Lingyang felt that only the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival were more suitable.

However, now that it has entered July, it is impossible to complete the burial ceremony on the Midyear Festival, so Zhang Lingyang will push the time to next year's Qingming Festival.

"Then what does Your Majesty have for the burial ceremony?" Sun Qicheng asked again.

"It doesn't have to be luxurious, but it has to be dignified. In addition, when the time comes, I will personally lead the civil and military officials to pay respects, and it is best for you to invite some of the martyrs' families and descendants to watch the ceremony.

Another point is that before the relocation of the remains of the martyrs, it is necessary to do a good job of communication between the families of the martyrs and their descendants, understand? ”

"Wechen understands!" In response, Sun Qicheng hesitated again: "Your Majesty, the rest is okay to say, but in a few princely mansions, Weichen is worried that it will not be too easy to speak!" ”

"You don't have to worry about that!" Zhang Lingyang said with a smile, "As long as you Ning Guofu set an example, other princes will naturally follow suit." ”

Hearing this, Sun Qicheng smiled bitterly.

The trouble is that Sun Qicheng doesn't know how to discuss this matter with his family.

seemed to see the embarrassment on Sun Qicheng's face, Zhang Lingyang smiled: "What's so embarrassing about this, relocating to Bishan Cemetery, this is an extremely glorious thing, just go back and tell your family."

I think that both your father and your people will support my decision! ”

"Wechen obeys!"

Sun Qicheng answered, and hurriedly left the palace.

At the same time, the cabinet and the military cabinet ministers were arguing over the list of people who would be buried in Cuiyun Peak, the main peak of the Bishan Cemetery.

Zhou An, the minister of the military pavilion, said: "Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty for two hundred years, those who have died on the battlefield, there are a total of two hundred and thirteen generals above the fourth rank, and now there are only one hundred and eight tombs on the main peak Cuiyun Peak. ”

"No way!" Without thinking about it, Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet, refused: "The one hundred and eight tombs on the main peak Cuiyun Peak are something that has been set a long time ago, and now it is close to completion.

In addition, His Majesty's request is that the tomb on the main peak Cuiyun Peak is only buried with heroes who have made contributions to expanding the territory, and in the list listed by your military cabinet, there are fifty-eight people who are generals who have been rewarded for their dragons, which is not in line with Your Majesty's intentions!

These fifty-eight people must be erased and cannot be buried in Bishan Cemetery! ”

"Why?" Zhou An argued, "They also shed blood for Da Zhou and sacrificed their lives, so why are they not qualified?" ”

"You have to ask Your Majesty, the old man can't answer!" Zheng Yongji said coldly.

"The old man will go to His Majesty for comment!" Zhou An snorted coldly, and immediately slapped the table and left!

When he arrived in the palace, after Zhang Lingyang understood the matter, he said: "What Zheng Yongji said is good, Bishan Cemetery only buries soldiers who have the merit of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, as for those soldiers who use the skills of the dragon, no matter how prominent they are during their lifetime and how significant their contribution to the Great Zhou is, they will not be buried in the Bishan Cemetery!" ”

Zhang Lingyang didn't look down on those heroes of the civil war, but he felt that the heroes of the foreign war were more worthy of respect.

Just like among the heroes of China, Zhang Lingyang prefers characters like Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Jing, Yue Fei, and Qi Jiguang rather than other famous generals.

Perhaps, other famous generals also have a lot to be respected, but for the whole of China, their contributions are far less outstanding than those on the side of Wei and Huo.

This is not only because they have seized more living space for the people of China, but more importantly, their spirit is worthy of people's respect.

They are the real backbone of the Chinese nation.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang did not hesitate to refute Zhou An's opinion.

In the eyes of the ancients, the merit is greater than that of the dragon, which Zhang Lingyang does not dare to agree. If everyone, especially the ministers and generals, wants to consider this point, when the princes compete for the crown, won't they just stand in line, and what kind of foreign war will they fight?

Because it takes a lot of risk to fight a foreign war, and as long as you stand in the right position, the future of the marquis is just around the corner, and it is far less risky, and there is no need to throw your head and spill blood.

Therefore, no matter what Zhou An said, Zhang Lingyang still insisted on his own point of view.

He wants to change the views of the people in the Great Zhou Dynasty and prove to everyone that only the real heroes of foreign wars can be worthy of the sacrifice of the Son of Heaven and win the respect of hundreds of millions of people in the Great Zhou.

Not only that, Zhang Lingyang also planned to build a place similar to Lingyan Pavilion to worship the famous generals who opened up territory for China in the past dynasties, and also wrote their deeds for everyone to worship.

Such a famous general, the officials of the Ministry of Rites looked through all the history books, and found a total of heroes like Seventy-two Wei from the history books.

Then Zhang Lingyang waved his pen and ordered all state capitals across the country to build martial arts temples to worship these seventy-two military sages, and Zhang Lingyang called these seventy-two people the seventy-two saints of martial arts.

As for the rankings?

Zhang Lingyang did not rank the seventy-two heroes.

In Zhang Lingyang's view, if it is ranked, it is actually an insult to the seventy-two saints of Wumiao.

Besides, no one is qualified to rank them either.

When Zhang Lingyang issued this holy decree, it caused an uproar in the court, and for a while, the government and the opposition said everything.

The folds are piled up in a palace.

Zhang Lingyang turned a deaf ear and still acted according to his true thoughts.

In this regard, Zhang Lingyang also expressed his opinion in the court: "I remember that once during the Chinese New Year, when I went to the Royal Academy to pay my respects, I happened to meet the historian Roland from France, and I discussed with him the difference between Western history and the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Roland once said to me without hesitation, 'Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou, you Great Zhou people are really strange, I have read your history, and I have carefully studied your history, and it turned out that your ministers and generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty like to support the Son of Heaven, and you Great Zhou yourself call this the work of the dragon. Because of the power of the dragon, they can be crowned marquis and worship the prime minister, and get wealth that they can't imagine at all.

But at the same time, I am also very nanny, I have flipped through the history books of your Great Zhou, but I found that these people who rely on the merit of the dragon to worship the marquis, they basically have no outstanding achievements.

There are also a few heroes who started from the dragon's work, and when they led their troops to conquer the Western Regions and the Xiongnu, they would basically encounter a big defeat, and the emperors in your history would be very tolerant of them.

And those generals who have been fighting at the border passes, they have fought hard for most of their lives, and they have finally risen to high positions by virtue of their military exploits, but they are often ordered by the emperor to exterminate their families because of one or two defeats.

I think that's very incorrect.

And you Great Zhou people like to rank the famous generals in history, but among these famous generals, the top five generals have not opened up an inch of territory for you at all, they are all famous for fighting civil wars, and the people they kill are your own people, why do you worship them so much? ’

Faced with Roland's question, I was silent for a long time.

I didn't know how to answer Roland's question.

Because what Roland said is very correct, those so-called famous generals, although they belong to different forces, are all the same nation in the end.

As for their own people, they can choose to kill wantonly, slaughter, burn cities, and treat foreigners even more fiercely.

Is such a famous player worthy of our admiration? ”