174: Borrowing from the past to satirize the present
After Cheng Qing finished speaking, the clansmen in the council hall slowly came back to their senses.
Dare to love Cheng Qing and the fifth master discussed it early in the morning.
Emperor Daizong threatened the clan and courtiers and said that Princess Tongchang was not allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, so he moved his imperial mausoleum away from Tianshou Mountain.
Everyone disagreed with Cheng Rong being buried in the ancestral grave, and the fifth master himself was not buried in the ancestral grave.
He doesn't even want to be buried in the ancestral grave, what kind of patriarch is he, and he still does his best for the clan, isn't that sick?
Cheng Qing used the old things of Emperor Daizong to emphasize the determination of the five masters.
The clan elders were all shocked.
There can't be no five masters in the clan!
The fifth master may not be suitable for entering the office, but it is really suitable to be a patriarch, let them elect others for a while, how can there be more suitable than the fifth master?
The mentality of the fifth master, Cheng Qing has already explained it clearly, and he has also given the clan elders a step down.
On the face, there is also the honor and title given by the emperor, and Cheng Rong is indeed different from other unmarried women.
The princess is more noble than the county lord, but there is a precedent for the princess to be buried in the imperial tomb in this dynasty, so it seems okay to let Cheng Rong, the county lord, be buried in the ancestral tomb of the Cheng family?
What's more, the juniors in the clan themselves don't mind.
This incident also stimulated their ambition from the side.
If the scientific expedition fails in the future, if you complain about Cheng Rong's bad feng shui, it will be a self-slap.
The inside and the face are reasonable, and the clan elders came together to discuss it, and simply wanted to fulfill the five masters. Without waiting for the clan elders to express their position, Cheng Heng's father hummed:
"Emperor Daizong is the third emperor of this dynasty, is a Shengming monarch, and Empress Xiaohui is a couple of deep love, no children under the knees, succeeded the son of the prince as the prince, after the death of Emperor Daizong, the prince succeeded to the throne, is for the later Emperor Xianzong, Cheng Qing, don't talk nonsense, Emperor Daizong and the clan and courtiers confrontation, let Princess Tongchang be buried in the imperial mausoleum, I have never heard of it, nor have I read it in the book, where did you see the far-fetched wild history legend of the descendants, it can be taken seriously!"
What Cheng Heng's father meant, Cheng Qing is talking nonsense.
The clan elders all thought he was too noisy, but Cheng Qing himself was not angry, but said with a smile:
"It was this time when I went to the capital to learn about it, the secrets of the royal family, ordinary people don't know, and the Hanlin officials who revised the history can know it, don't worry, when I enter the Hanlin in the future, I must copy out this historical evidence for the cousin."
- You don't know, it's because you haven't even entered the Hanlin Academy, so you don't have access to these historical materials.
- But it doesn't matter, you couldn't be admitted to the Hanlin Academy back then, and your son Cheng Heng might not be able to get in, but I can be admitted, and when I enter the Hanlin Academy in the future, I must remember this.
Translate Cheng Qing's words a little, which is the above meaning.
Cheng's father wanted to jump up and hit someone.
Little deflated cub, why did he curse his son for not being able to enter the Hanlin Academy?!
Master Cheng San couldn't stand it anymore, and coughed twice:
"That's it! Holding on to a junior, you also have to have a bit of the bearing of an elder, does Brother Qing dare to tell lies about this kind of thing? He said that if there is such a thing, there must be! ”
"Thank you for the trust of the third uncle, or the third uncle is wise!"
Cheng Qing's mouth was sweet and climbed along the pole, and Master Cheng San was comfortably slapped by her sycophants.
Seeing that the situation had been decided, the fifth master made a look, and Cheng Qing said that he would not disturb the elders' deliberations, and would retreat first.
Cheng's father was so angry with her that he fainted.
Little deflated cub, now that I know that I am a junior, no one invited you in just now!
As soon as Cheng Qing left, Cheng Jue and others also followed her and withdrew.
Cheng Mao was curious, "Not only does the cousin of the big house not know about this old history, but I haven't heard of it, so where does Xiaolang see it?" ”
Cheng Mao is not questioning Cheng Qing, Cheng Mao is purely curious.
Cheng Qing smiled, "Senior Brother Meng won the top prize in the examination, and when he entered the Hanlin Academy, he was from the sixth grade of cultivation, and he was promoted to the sixth grade of the waiter a year ago, and when I and the fifth uncle left Beijing, I heard that the senior brother became a waiter from the fifth grade. ”
"Ah, it's Senior Brother Meng!"
"Shhhhh
Cheng Qing threw Cheng Mao a look of "you know I don't know if I can tell it", and Cheng Mao nodded vigorously.
Cheng Mao did not mention Emperor Daizong's secrets, but asked about Meng Huaijin's recent situation.
Actually, what is there to say?
Emperor Daizong's secret was indeed told to her by Meng Huaijin before leaving Beijing, presumably at that time, Meng Huaijin had already mentioned to the fifth master that Cheng Rong should be buried in the ancestral tomb of the Meng family.
However, the fifth master did not respond, and Meng Huaijin was worried that Cheng Rong's burial in the ancestral tomb of the Cheng family would not go well, so he told Cheng Qing about the past of Emperor Daizong, and let Cheng Qing use it as a basis to persuade the Cheng clansmen.
The real historical facts are not as easy as Cheng Qing said in a few words, Emperor Daizong is already a very strong emperor, he threatens to move the emperor's mausoleum, and wants to bury his beloved daughter Princess Tongchang in the emperor's mausoleum, the most opposed is not the courtiers, but the clan.
After all, the impact of Emperor Daizong's doing this is either bad or bad royal feng shui, and it has nothing to do with the courtiers, so why should they do it for the royal family's own affairs and Daizong?
The opposition of the clan was very strong, and Daizong said that he would pass his stepson from the clan to become the crown prince.
With the incense bait of the prince hanging, the clan can't care about going against Daizong, for fear of provoking Daizong's disgust and abandoning their descendants from the emperor's heirs.
That is the position of the crown prince, the future emperor, only because Daizong has no son, can he have a chance to fall on their descendants!
Compared with the throne of the emperor, where Princess Tongchang is buried is a trivial matter.
Emperor Daizong used this incense bait to hang the people of the clan, and there was no opposition inside and outside the court, and after the coffin of Princess Tongchang was buried in the imperial mausoleum, he chose the later Xianzong as the prince from the son of the prince of the clan.
Before Emperor Daizong's great trip, the prince's biological father had passed away, and his biological mother was especially alive.
Emperor Xianzong was succeeded to Emperor Daizong as the crown prince at a few years old, and the relationship with his biological father and mother was far less than that of Emperor Daizong. I thought that I would be rewarded and promoted by Emperor Xianzong, but Emperor Xianzong refuted it with Confucian righteousness, saying that if his biological father was posthumously crowned as the emperor, there would be nowhere to place the tablet in the Taimiao, and the time of his death, his biological father was still before his adoptive father Emperor Daizong, and now he was posthumously crowned as the emperor, should he rank the tablet before his adoptive father Emperor Daizong?
is filial to his biological father, but not to his adoptive father.
Meng Huaijin told Cheng Qing about this period of history, and also praised Xianzong as the monarch of Shengming, and Xianzong's adherence to the bottom line suppressed a riot that could affect the entire court.
Many of the secrets mentioned by Meng Huaijin are recorded in the living notes of the two emperors of Daizong and Xianzong.
Cheng Qing felt that Meng Huai had found out this old history of the royal family, in addition to helping Cheng Rong be buried in the ancestral grave smoothly, he did not mean to use the past to satirize the present. The two emperors, Dai and Xian, are both famous lords of the Great Wei, and the one who sits on the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Plan now...... It's hard to put into words!