Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Royal Wedding

First, since the great chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, too many rules have been broken, too many impolite things have happened, social etiquette has been trampled on to the point of incompleteness, and people have seen too many things that are not in line with the rules and the ancestral system, and it is already strange.

Second, most of the conservative officials are now quasi-criminals with the experience of "slaves", although Zhuge Liang has given them a light sentence and dealt with them, but no one knows whether the emperor will settle accounts with them.

They are all cautious now, holding their tails between their legs, but they don't dare to come out and talk nonsense, so they collectively lose their speech. And officials like Zhuge Liang and Guo Youzhi, who are Liu Hou's faction, they are all busy with political affairs, the situation at home and abroad is severe, and all kinds of affairs to deal with are complicated, and there are such funeral affairs where they are in charge, and they also know that this is also the emperor's instructions, so they naturally will not go to work with the emperor.

So, after the emperor heard Liu Yan's archaeological treatise-style recital in a certain heavenly court, "Longyan Dayue" immediately issued an order to hand over the reform of funeral habits to Liu Yan.

Liu Yan soon tossed out a funeral reform plan, the main content of which was to use clay to fire the shapes of various items to replace various valuable real items.

For example, the living people who want to be buried are replaced by terracotta figurines, as well as war horses, swords and weapons, various gold and silver jewelry, pots and pans and other daily necessities, etc., all of which are kneaded into the shape of that item with clay, and put into the tomb for burial after firing.

Even the jade that the nobles of the Han Dynasty liked to use was not put away, all of them were replaced with clay, and even silk cloth could not be placed, because in ancient times, silk cloth was hard currency and very valuable. Therefore, Liu Bei did not wear a golden jade robe, but wrapped him whole with clay, and then carved a dragon and a phoenix on the outside of the clay to make a very exquisite dragon robe pattern.

In fact, this treatment can put him in a closed environment that isolates the air, and the corpse is less destructible, and the effect is only better than that of the golden jade clothes.

At the same time, there was not a single thing of value in the entire tomb, only clay. Clay, strictly speaking, is just mud, and the fired clay is pottery, and it is not worth much, of course, it is different after thousands of years, when these things become antiques even if they are pottery.

But if it is related to the unearthed cultural relics, the value is not easy to calculate, these things are usually put on the auction house for auction, and how high the price can be auctioned depends on the hot-headed Cheng dù of the local tyrants who participated in the auction that day.

However, Liu Hou also knows that he can't manage things after so long, and if he can ensure that his cheap father's tomb is not stolen in a few hundred years, even if he is worthy of him, who can manage the affairs of thousands of generations?

Liu Bei's mausoleum does not have a valuable burial goods, if only the emperor and a few important ministers know about this matter, it is not enough, but also for the tomb robbers to know. Therefore, Liu Hou ordered that this matter be recorded truthfully in the annals of history, and he simply asked people to list the items in the tomb, which will not only be in the archives of the royal family in the future, but also in the library of the "Ministry of Industry".

He just wants to tell the people of the world that there is nothing good here, and if you want to rob the tomb, please move to other places. In order to prove this, on the day of the burial, he also asked the entire funeral procession to enter the mausoleum, and everyone walked past Liu Bei's coffin one by one, and said: Give the first emperor a final farewell.

In this way, everyone can see clearly that the burial items in the mausoleum are indeed only pottery made of mud, and there is nothing of value. Liu Hou sometimes finds it funny, how this measure is a bit like the method of preventing the theft of manhole covers in later generations.

It is said that the manhole cover of a city in later generations was always stolen, because the manhole cover was made of iron and could be sold for money, and then the municipal department had no choice, so it used cement and other materials with no recycling value to cast the manhole cover, and since then, the manhole cover will never be lost. Liu Hou feels that the method he uses now is the same.

When everyone said goodbye to Liu Bei, the construction workers who had been on standby immediately took action, mixing cement and sand and stones, and tying steel bars, and they wanted to seal the mausoleum with reinforced concrete. In the end, the reinforced concrete was poured to a frightening thickness of two meters, which could be used as a protective layer for the nuclear power plant.

Liu Hou didn't believe that in such a situation, someone would come to steal Liu Bei's tomb, and the price to drill through such a thick layer of reinforced concrete was estimated to be higher than the value of the contents inside. There is no killing without buying and selling, and there is no one robbing the tomb without profit, the principle is the same.

Finally, the mausoleum pours a hemispherical mound that is exposed to the ground, which of course is made of concrete. Then set up a big stone tablet in front of the big tomb, engraved with Liu Bei's great achievements, and then there are two or three months of landscaping projects, and there are special personnel to plant turf, trees, and flowers on this hill.

Finally, at the foot of this hill, another stone monument is erected, which reads "Huiling Park". Liu Hou became the first emperor to treat the cemetery of the first emperor as a park. This idea was really a little ahead of its time, and this decision was opposed by many ministers.

Especially Taichang Temple, one of their responsibilities is to guard the cemetery, the emperor is doing this, what else do they keep? Ordinary people can enter the imperial tomb to play, what kind of system is this? This is a great disrespect to the first emperor.

Liu Hou gave a statement: "The first emperor loved the people like a son all his life, and the people were like a family, although he has returned to heaven, but he should also hope to often see his people live and work in peace and contentment, and live a happy life." And the people are deeply favored by him, and they will probably be very grateful to him and love him, so how can they be disrespectful to his mausoleum? ”

Although this statement is novel, but it seems to be very reasonable, the ministers can not refute it, so since then, "Huiling Park" has become a place for ordinary people to relax and play, and the government of later generations has repeatedly expanded and rebuilt this park, and built a lot of sculptures and stone carvings of the deeds of the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang, and the literati and ink writers also like to leave ink treasures here, and it has gradually become a famous tourist landscape.

People who come to Chengdu from other places will inevitably go to "Huiling Park" to pay homage to Emperor Zhaolie, which has become a custom. In front of the mausoleum of Emperor Zhaolie, incense has been flourishing for thousands of years, which is no worse than those thousand-year-old temples.

successfully solved Liu Bei's funeral, and not long after, Liu Hou was going to hold a big wedding. The last time he ascended the throne as emperor in Jingzhou, Liu Hou hurriedly canonized Zhang Xingcai as the queen and Zhou Xue as the concubine, and the time was urgent, and there was no time to hold a big wedding, so the last canonization can only be equivalent to an engagement, and it can also be regarded as a registration for future generations.

As an emperor, it is still necessary to hold a decent wedding, or because of financial problems, the wedding should still be simple, Liu Hou's principle is that there is no problem in employing people, but where you can save money, you should try to save money. However, this wedding was still very sensational, because Liu Hou wanted to marry three queens at once.

Because Guan Gong forced Guan Yinhua to Liu Hou and asked him to marry his daughter, Guan Gong and Zhang Fei are Liu Hou's sworn brothers, and the two have equal status, Liu Hou can't favor one over the other for their two daughters, and it is impossible for one to be a big wife and a little concubine, so only two can have equal status, both are wives and queens.

Later, he thought about it again, anyway, the two queens had already broken the rules, two were broken, and three were also broken, there was no essential difference, so it was better to make Zhou Xue the queen. He likes Zhou Xue very much, and Zhou Yu is also a generation of famous generals who are not inferior to Guan and Zhang, and his status is also there, so he doesn't want to treat Zhou Xue badly.

The ministers were stunned by Liu Hou's innovative spirit, since ancient times, where have they heard of the emperor who canonized three empresses at once? Three queens, who is the master of the harem? Who has the final say in the harem? This is the same as the truth that there are no two masters in the sky, and there can be no two masters in the harem, let alone three masters.

One mountain can't hide two tigers, let alone three tigresses, and the ministers are very worried, just afraid that the emperor's harem will never have peace in the future. What they don't know is that there is also a wonderful emperor in later generations who also canonized three queens at the same time, coincidentally, this emperor is also surnamed Liu, and the country name is also Han, he is Liu Cong, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Liu Hou said that in the future, the three queens will sit on an equal footing, there is no difference between big and small, everyone is not allowed to compete for favor, no palace fight, and they must live in harmony and have no distinction between each other. As for whether this is just his good wish, it will be interesting to see.

On the issue of the lord of the harem, Liu Hou asked his wife Mrs. Gan to do it, and the three queens were each in charge of a part of the affairs, that is to say, the Empress Dowager Gan was the general manager, and the three queens were equivalent to three department managers.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Xingcai didn't care about the affairs of the palace at all, she soaked in her real room all day long, continuing her scientific research.

Zhou Xue was busy collecting the troops and generals of Eastern Wu every day and doing ideological work for them, and he was also very busy.

Empress Dowager Gan is not in good health, and basically she doesn't care much about the affairs of the harem, so that almost all the things that become a harem in the end are pressed on Guan Yinhua. These are all later things, and now I still talk about Liu Hou's wedding.

The emperor's wedding is a very big event, only when marrying the queen, that is, the mother of the main palace, it will be called a "big wedding", this time Liu Hou married three queens at once, it is a big wedding in the big wedding.

The procedure of the emperor's wedding is basically the same as that of the common people, and it is also necessary to abide by the "six rites" mentioned in the "Book of Rites", that is, Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, announcing the date, and welcoming in person. These cumbersome procedures are naturally handled by the relevant officials, and Liu Hou does not have to worry about it.

The official in charge of organizing Liu Hou's wedding was Zong Zhengqing, who was the agency in charge of the imperial family's clan affairs, and the relationship between the emperor, the princes, and the in-laws of relatives and men and women was recorded by Zong Zheng. Zong is one of the Nine Emperors, and is generally held by a member of the royal family with high moral integrity.

Liu Bei was the first emperor, and he didn't have any relatives of the Liu family at all, so he let his brother-in-law Mi Zhu serve as Zongzheng, but Mi Zhu had died of illness a few years ago, and the position passed to his son Mi Wei.

Elk Wei has the style of a father, has a graceful and luxurious appearance, is proficient in archery and equestrianism, and is good at riding and archery. Since childhood, he followed Liu Bei with his father to fight in the north and south, and he was loyal to Liu Bei and Shu Han.

Liu Hou's special wedding was presided over by his uncle Mi Wei, during this time, Mi Wei was very busy, all kinds of ceremonies were extremely complicated, and the most important thing was that no matter what was procured or what ceremony was carried out, it had to be in triplicate.

Organizing the emperor's wedding itself is busy and tiring enough, but he is better to multiply all this busyness by three, and he will naturally become the most tired Zongzheng in history to organize the emperor's wedding.