5. Abolish human martyrdom
Zheng Wen returned to the dormitory, changed into the emperor's regular clothes, and put on plain clothes.
He said to Huang An: "Big companion, let's go see our father again!" ”
When Huang An heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red, and tears flowed out. It is true that he is a eunuch, but he also has feelings, he has accompanied the first emperor for decades, almost watching him grow up, and his feelings are naturally self-evident, so he choked up and said: "The emperor... Your Majesty, please..."
As he spoke, he led the way, and Zheng Wen also stepped forward.
After a while, a group of people entered the location of the coffin and built the Peace Hall.
As soon as I entered, I saw a group of people getting up, and it was the women led by the Queen Mother Wang and the Imperial Concubine Xie, ready to salute.
Zheng Wen was the first to speak: "Queen Mother, noble concubine, you don't have to be polite, you don't have to bow in front of your father. ”
After speaking, he walked straight to the front of the sect's column, and said loudly: "You don't have to salute, I am just the son of my father today. ”
After speaking, he didn't pay attention to it anymore, and knelt straight to the front, kneeling, and didn't say a word.
To be honest, Zheng Wen didn't have much affection for his cheap father, and the same was true for his predecessor. Zheng Wen is just a show, let the dynasty Chinese Wen Wu, the clan honor, let the people of the world know that Zheng Wen is still filial.
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Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Zheng Wen led the ministers of civil and military affairs to bury the coffin of the first emperor in the imperial mausoleum.
Looking at the huge Zheng Emperor's Mausoleum, Zheng Wen was full of emotion, it was too big.
His father began to repair his own mausoleum before his death, and spent one-fifth of the income of the treasury every year, as high as two million taels, and he had not finished repairing it for 16 years, and he had to continue to repair, it was too luxurious, and the feudal emperor was good!
Do you want to do this in the future? Zheng Wen was pondering for a while at this time.
At this moment, a noise came, interrupting Zheng Wen's contemplation.
Zheng Wen took a closer look, and it turned out that some women had quarreled with some forbidden soldiers, and even started fighting.
"What for?" Zheng Wen shouted loudly.
When the noisy two sides saw Zheng Wen, they all knelt down.
A forbidden army general hurriedly stepped out of the ranks and said, "Your Majesty, these are the concubines of the first emperor, and some palace maids, they are going to follow the first emperor!" ”
When Zheng Wen heard it, although the general of the forbidden army said it tactfully, Zheng Wen still understood, this is a martyrdom!
Zheng Wen was shocked in his heart, the fresh life was in front of his eyes, and he was about to pass away. Zheng Wen felt that he was trembling for a while, life was so worthless!
Zheng Wen was determined to do something about himself to change these poor women.
Also change the whole Daqian!
This idea is deeply rooted in his heart at this moment, and from this, he has fought for it all his life, fighting with the sky, the earth, and people!
Zheng Wen then opened his mouth and said loudly: "No need to be martyred, let these poor women go!" From now on, Daqian will give up the funeral, so let's start from here! ”
After Zheng Wen finished speaking, he saluted the woman and said: "It's the Daqian royal family who is sorry for you, it's me who is sorry for you, only at this moment did I know that there was such an inhumane burial, and I am humble to you on behalf of the royal family, I'm sorry." ”
"However, you were once the woman of your father's emperor, and I am afraid that you will never be able to leave the palace again, so I humbly bow to you again."
The woman kneeling at the bottom, hearing these words, immediately burst into tears, survived, finally survived, and shouted in unison, "Long live Your Majesty."
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Zheng Wen asked the forbidden army to escort them back.
watched them disappear into his eyes, and in front of the ministers of civil and military affairs, he knelt down to the imperial tomb of the first emperor at once.
With a resolute face, he said, "Father! It's me who is not filial, I'm sorry for you, I have no face to see you in this life! I don't ask for your forgiveness, but I can't do it to see so many living lives disappear. ”
After a pause, he said loudly: "I will no longer be buried in the imperial tomb in this life." ”
When the ministers below heard these words, they all knelt down.
One of the ministers knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, no! How can your imperial tomb not be buried? ”
In ancient times, the emperor's mausoleum was an important etiquette, and the ministers who violated the etiquette never dared to let it happen when they were officials.
The other ministers were also opposed.
Zheng Wentou didn't reply and said: "I'm sorry for the emperor, I just found a place to bury me after I died, which can be regarded as an apology to my father." ”
When the kneeling ministers heard this, their opposition became even more fierce.
Even Prime Minister Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty must not think about this, if you want to do this, all the people in the world will not dare to be buried!" I'm afraid that we, the ministers, will leave our names in the history books and leave a stench for thousands of years. ”
As soon as Zheng Wen heard this, he immediately understood, and he thought it was still too simple!
Isn't it too extravagant to look at it, it's not practical to hide so many good things, and I don't know if someone will rob the tomb in the future, so that I can't be at peace after I die, so I said it righteously, it seems that I am still too anxious.
Then he said: "I am indeed sorry for my father, I have no face to see him, so I will choose another place to build it!" ”
The kneeling ministers suddenly breathed a sigh of relief!
If you don't bury it, you won't bury it! In addition, it is also possible to choose a place, and the Daqian royal family does not have to be buried in it, as long as the idea of a thin burial of the new emperor is dispelled, their reputation can be preserved!
Besides, they still have some of this new emperor!
Judging from this incident, although their new emperor is lame, he is indeed a benevolent and righteous emperor, because they see the new emperor's respect for human life, since they can respect those women, they can also respect themselves because of this. Therefore, when Zheng Wen abolished the funeral, they did not stop it!
Zheng Wen also gained a large number of people's hearts because of this incident!
There is such a record in the "History of the Great Qian" of later generations: On the third day of the ninth month of the 16th year of the founding of the Great Qian, Emperor Da Renwu abolished the martyrdom in the Qianling Tomb, and since then, no one has been martyred. It is an act of benevolence and righteousness!
At this time, Zheng Wen did not know what future generations would say about him.
Then he said loudly: "The edict decrees the world to abolish human martyrdom, and since then, no one will be allowed to be martyred, but can only replace it with figurines, and those who violate it will be severely punished." ”
Since then, there has never been a martyrdom in Daqian, but since then, Daqian has become popular figurine culture, what wooden figurines, terracotta figurines, porcelain figurines, bronze figurines, silver figurines, gold figurines...... Since then, it has become popular, and even the literati's notes and letters have been mentioned, and the archaeological culture of later generations has found a variety of figurines of various types, materials, and workmanship, thus forming the archaeological figurine culture of Daqian. Of course, that's another story.
At this time, Zheng Wen didn't know that he just wanted to change the lives of these poor women, as a person of later generations, he couldn't do it without regard for life!
As a result, in the end of the Zheng Wen dynasty, most of the courtiers got a good death.