Chapter 236: The Ritual of Sacrifice
In August of the third year of Jianyuan, September 139 years ago, this month is not only the month of autumn harvest but also the month of taxation, and its status in the calendar is equivalent to the month of wax, which is equivalent to the end of the year, because October is the year of the next year, and the first day of October is equal to the Spring Festival.
In front of the temple, more than 1,000 princes dressed up to attend, today is the most solemn ceremony of the year, to worship the ancestors.
Looking around, from the princes and kings, down to the black clothes and red clothes of the marquis of Guannei, the head with the crown also tends to be solemn.
The formal name of the black clothes and red clothes should be the upper Xuan Xia Xuan, the upper body is black, and the lower robe is red, the so-called dress is black and red, it doesn't matter if you usually wear a new Hanfu at home, you must wear black and red formal clothes to attend important occasions such as sacrifices, otherwise it is a meaning to travel without clothes, which is a capital offense of great disrespect.
Since ancient times, the two colors of Xuan Xuan are Chinese formal wear, not the original reform of the Han emperor, this system can be traced back to the ancient era of the Holy King, the Yellow Emperor annexed the tribe to dominate the Central Plains, the first is the crown of the five emperors, and the Xia people's clothing etiquette was established when accepting the audience of the tribes in the world, and since then the Xia people's clothing and crown system has become an iron law that has not changed forever, except that the barbarian emperor has no cultural tampering, this iron law has never changed.
What's more interesting is that the two main cultures inherited by the Han Empire, the Great Qin is still black, and the Great Chu is still red, so the crown of the Han Empire is more condensed and the red is more gorgeous.
Cao Shi's gaze swept over the end of the team, and the Sanyue barbarian king, who had been reduced to the likes of the Marquis of Guiyi, trembled and did not dare to breathe, and the Hun Marquis also had such an expression at the beginning.
"The Son of Heaven is coming!"
The princes, kings, and princes saluted to show respect, and the Son of Heaven wore the emperor's crown and wore a crown on his head. The majesty of striding into the atrium made the princes, kings, and princes in awe, and they were much more mature than their immature faces a few years ago. The change of temperament is particularly prominent, and the majesty that naturally arises after holding power for a long time.
According to the golden rule. The princes and kings, the princes and the princes of the golden temple dedicated to the ancestors of the Han family, every thousand people must give four taels of gold, less than a thousand and more than 500 people are also four taels of gold, less than 500 people are ignored, but in the past two years, the change of the monetary system has also changed the golden law.
One Jin of Han is equal to 25o grams and equal to 16 taels of the old system, and the next Jin of the new monetary system is equal to two Han Jin and is worth 2o gold coins, so the law of gold has been adjusted accordingly, and 2 gold coins and 8 silver coins are needed for every 1,000 mouths. Or 5 gold coins for every 2,000 bits.
Cao Shi was the prince of the liehou, there were 23ooo households in the original Hou country, 3ooo households in the Yifeng of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, when today's sub-seal 5ooo households and 3ooo households, a total of 11ooo households in the three Yifeng, combined with the population growth of 345ooo households in that year, with a population of more than 160,002ooo people, ranking slightly higher than the 32ooo households of Qu Reverse Hou Chen He in the liehou feudal households, ranking first.
The place of Qu Reverse Hou's house is good. Chen Ping was not very well received by the military merit group in the early Han Dynasty, but Taizu Liu Bang was very kind to him, and gave Chen Ping Quyi County, which had 30,000 households before the war at the end of Qin and 5ooo households before the war turmoil at the end of Qin. Let this inconspicuous family reprogram the rank of 30,000 households in fifty years, which is only slightly inferior to the Jianghou and Tiaohou series of those years.
According to the law of gold, Cao Shi paid 4o5 gold coins. 2o pieces were packed with two boxes for a city and sent to the temple, and the princes and kings gave more gold in comparison. Several large princes and kings need to give 2ooo to 3ooo gold coins, and the big box is simply painful to death.
"Pingyang Hou. You said that you are good at changing the monetary system, and the gold donated this time is enough for me to suffer for two months. Liu Hu, the king of Jibei, is a miser, seeing that his gold box was sent to the temple and disappeared, his painful face twitched: "Each catty of gold in the market is worth five baht and 45ooo pieces, and our princes and princes are treated the same, each household receives 2oo money and 1,000 households 2o thousand yuan, and it is slightly more than 4 city catties in gold, but you have to know that a thousand households must have a fast 5ooo mouth, then most of the gold is out, which is four times more expensive than the previous gold tax, aren't you pit your own people?" ”
"It's not easy to make a few dollars these days, if you have any opinions, let's make it clear in front of the gong, but you can't secretly attack yourself."
"This is reasonable, everyone understands what you want to do to help the emperor, and there is no opinion on what kind of currency reform is carried out, but you can't let us suffer and let the Son of Heaven make a big profit!"
Cao Shi is ranked first among the princes, opposite is Liu Shou, the king of Qi who is the first prince, behind him is Liu Dao, the king of Chu, Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, and Liu Dingguo, the king of Yan.
So in the first two years of the reform of the monetary system, the greedy princes and kings made a lot of money, and the gold in hand quadrupled the market price, and threw out all the gold in hand for five baht money.
After a few years, they figured out that it was not quite right, the imperial court collected taxes to ask for gold instead of five baht money, and the people paid taxes only five baht money without gold, in the end, the princes and princes were angry at both ends, and the five baht money in the left hand was exchanged for the right hand It was a big loss, at least compared with the previous tax system, it was a big loss, but they were distressed.
"Do you think it's too much? I think this is a very good thing, not to mention your princes and kings, even our princes have to pay money, so much gold to take out, of course I feel distressed and uncomfortable, but it is good to hand over the money. ”
Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, was also an old man, and when he heard this, he hurriedly asked, "How can you say this?" ”
"The Son of Heaven is also a relative of the princes and kings, yes, there are many of you who are the brothers of the Son of Heaven, but in the next twenty or thirty years, the crown prince of the Son of Heaven became the emperor, and the relationship was estranged. Do you say that it will lead to bad things after a long time? ”
Liu Shou, the king of Qi, said: "I said that the Son of Heaven doesn't take our distant relatives so seriously, after all, there are several generations of relatives. After all, we can't compare to King Zhao and King Zhongshan are brothers born by the first emperor. ”
"Then we'll admit it?"
Cao Shi said: "For the sake of the stability of future generations, pay more taxes so that the Son of Heaven can protect us with peace of mind." Otherwise, in 1oo years, who will recognize who in the past five generations of emperors? Without the protection of family affection, if an unscrupulous descendant violates the criminal law, and there is no pity for the emperor, I am afraid that I will not even be able to ask for grace, wouldn't it be to break a lineage. ”
The princes and kings thought so, don't look at the surface scenery is a hundred times more comfortable than the princes, but they themselves know that behind the scenery is the emperor's promotion, if the Son of Heaven hates you, you will get bad luck, Liu Xian, the crown prince of Wu, was stoned to death by Liu Qi, the young Emperor of Han Jing, or or stoned to death, and Liu Bi, the king of Wu, could only pinch his nose and admit it. When Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne and said that the emperor ordered the reduction of the domain, he first aimed at Liu Bi, the king of Wu who killed his son and cut off the heir, and then vigorously cut the domain and killed the king of Wu first.
Sometimes to enjoy that blessing, you have to confess that life.
The princes and kings are all people who can see it, and they can't see it more than ten years before they were killed by the generals of the Han army.
When the words reached the ears of the princes, it was a difference, the princes were no better than the princes and kings, and there was no relationship between blood relatives with the same surname. It is very difficult for people with different surnames to make the emperor feel at ease, and the most favored minister in the early Han Dynasty was Prime Minister Xiao He, both husband and wife were liehous, and more than a dozen people in a family were given food. In terms of size, it is comparable to the princes and kings of the early Han Dynasty, as well as Zhang Liang, who was resigned from the legendary seal of 30,000 households, and Taizu Liu Bang forced him to stuff 10,000 households.
But what happened to these two people?
Xiao He's family was kicked out of the court, and the impact was completely lost. Zhang Liang passed on to the second generation of the Marquis Zhang Budo was exempted from his crimes, from the high queen Lu Pheasant to the three dukes and nine kings in the court, and the meritorious princes all turned a blind eye. Everyone is holding their arms to watch the jokes of the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, doesn't Taizu love the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty? Han Xin didn't even leave a son until he died. Xiao He's family went to the countryside to become a rich lord, and the second generation of Zhang Liang's family became a pawn of a peddler, which is a tragic word.
The three heroes of the early Han Dynasty are still like this, what qualifications do the princes who have generally gone through four generations have to make the emperor trust, in case the emperor looks at himself and plucks it to the end, it is really a matter of minutes.
The princes have no temper, the family business is not as small as the princes and kings, and I don't really pay attention to or like the Son of Heaven, even if the Son of Heaven wants to collect gold, then give it out, it's a big deal to hug the thigh of the Marquis of Pingyang to make money from outside, and the privateering in South Vietnam is a good business.
The disbanded Southern Army was reorganized into garrison troops in South Vietnam, and was ordered to protect the Han and Jingman tribes who moved south to settle in Panyu, and the batch of 200,000 households with a total of 1 million people completed half of the share, and it is expected that all of them will be relocated by the end of the year, and the second batch of 200,000 households will be relocated, mainly to get the Jingman tribes to the eastern part of Nanyue, as well as the Minyue Kingdom and the Dongou Kingdom.
Jing Man is familiar with the barbarian knows how to hunt and farm, the earliest is the Chu King era tamed to become the main force of the barbarians, the early Han Dynasty had served the Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang to be preserved, Jing Man's various departments are scattered in Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, Changsha Province in various regions, it is impossible to take all of them, only half of them are not too difficult, and the other half migrated to the Yelang country south of Bashu, Yelang country is a place where the Han people can not go temporarily, and it is a good way to unite with Jingman and obedient Yelang people.
The Son of Heaven was not afraid that Jing Man and Yelang would turn against the water, and taking Jing Man away was to implement a strategy of constantly driving the southward migration, and the barbarians in the south advanced southward, leaving the Lianghu region and the Jiangnan region to be the next settlement of the Han people.
The next move is brewing, the residents of Lianghuai and Nanyang County 6 continue to go south, and then migrate northerners from Yanzhao and Qilu to fill the gap between Lianghuai, and gradually push the Han people to the south slowly, and the forced relocation will definitely cause trouble, but as long as the grassroots organizations are not damaged, the problem of the entire county and even the entire county going south is not a big problem.
The process of migration will bring many losses, the Han people who went south urgently need the capital to settle down, so plundering Luo Yue further south of South Vietnam, selling slaves, grain, gold, silver and jewelry became one of the important means, the liehou stared at the fat meat early and waited for a bite, so he could not hand over the gold in vain. (Want to know more exciting news about "The Great Han Liehou"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "qidianzhongenang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued!)
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