Chapter 990: Only Twenty Years as an Emperor

When Cao Cao and Liu Bei accompanied Emperor Liu Wei back to Luoyang, tens of millions of Han people in the world quietly watched every move in Luoyang City, wanting to see how Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, fulfilled the promise he had made.

Zhao Xing did not disappoint the people of the world, Luoyang's actions were not only fast, but also very large, and finally lived up to the expectations and curiosity of countless "enthusiastic audiences".

First of all, Emperor Liu Wei publicly announced the time and place of the Zen throne, which was somewhat unexpected.

The time of the Zen throne is set on a certain day in the second half of November in the twelfth year of Guangxi, and if you look at the imperial calendar, it seems that it has nothing to do with the auspicious day of the zodiac. Needless to say, this time was set by Zhao Xing. In recent years, Zhao Xing has repeatedly observed the height of the sun, and accurately figured out the time of the spring equinox, autumn equinox, summer solstice, and winter solstice, and this is the common solar calendar in later generations. He planned to ascend the throne on the first day of the solar calendar, and at the same time change the era along the way, and then abolish the practice of changing the emperor and making many era names to toss the people.

The solar calendar has always been more than a month earlier than the lunar calendar, so there will be a new year's day on the solar calendar, and it will fall on the lunar calendar to become a day in late November of the previous year. Zhao Xing had already thought about it, so he set the day he ascended the throne as the first year of the Han calendar, and completely abolished the system of era names in the future, no matter how many generations the emperor recycled, he would adopt the Han calendar chronology, and implement the solar calendar and the lunar calendar in parallel. Among them, the solar calendar is used to record history and determine the time of military events, and the lunar calendar is used to guide agricultural production and determine the annual festivals and holidays.

In the future, the South Palace and the North Palace in Luoyang will no longer be the royal palace, the North Palace will be used as the Han History and Military Museum, and the South Palace will be the residence of the Han National Gold Bank and Financial Center.

Although it is only a short message, it reveals important information. First, the name of the Han dynasty has not changed, and all the people of the Han Dynasty will continue to become Hanmin in the future; second, the succession of the two emperors has created a new model, as if it is a transition carried out in a very harmonious and stable manner, and it will not be bloody and thrilling.

Soon after the emperor announced the news, he was sent to the newly built Han National Hotel in Chang'an, accompanied by only five concubines and their children. It is said that after the new emperor ascends the throne, he will issue a decree to the world to completely abolish the wife and concubine system, stipulating that adult men in the Han Dynasty can only have a maximum of three wives of the same status at the same time in their lifetime, and it is strictly forbidden to "eat more and occupy more", and it is not allowed to keep "little four" and "little five" privately.

It should be noted that the rules set by Zhao Xing emphasize "at the same time", that is, an adult man can marry only one wife, or two wives, or seven or eight wives, or a dozen wives in his life, but no more than three of them meet the legal procedures at any time. If a man's wife dies or is divorced, he can marry a new third wife.

Zhao Xing's regulation did not radically engage in monogamy all at once, but it also effectively restricted the problem of rich and powerful people frantically raising wives, while those without money could not get wives. In particular, he stipulates that all three wives have the same right to inherit property, regardless of whether they are before or after, which is very powerful. If a man of the Great Han marries three wives, and then he falls in love with another woman, and he wants to divorce one of them, he must give this woman a quarter of his entire property. If he changes two or three wives in a row, then the property in his actual possession will be seriously reduced.

Zhao Xing now has seven wives, which is a serious excess, but when he arrives at Zhao Zhenbang, he has to implement the new rules set by his son. It is already considered an over-standard treatment for the emperor who can keep five wives for the emperor of the Zen throne, and as for the hundreds of palace maids in the original three palaces and six courts, they are all dismissed and those women's civilian status is restored.

With the drastic "cut" of the emperor's wife, the profession of "eunuch", which Zhao Xing is extremely disgusted and afraid of, will also come to an end. The "Great Han Charter", which was formulated by Jia Xu, clearly stipulated that the royal family would not recruit any eunuchs as attendants from now on. If any new emperor dares to restore and restore some of the old systems, such as the use of eunuchs, it will be regarded as a serious violation of the Han Charter and will face the end of being ousted from the throne.

In Zhao Xing's view, the "thing" of eunuchs is really not a good thing, and to put it bluntly, it is an accomplice who encourages the emperor's arrogance and incompetence, and it is really the biggest cancer of Chinese-style feudalism! So many foreign countries have also experienced the period of feudal dynasties, and there is no such deformed profession as eunuchs in other countries, and Chinese civilization has given birth to such freaks who do not pay attention to human nature.

However, the emperors in the past liked to use eunuchs, largely because they were worried that the three thousand beauties in their harem could not bear to be lonely and would have fornication with the men who "brought the handles" below, so they came up with the crazy practice of using eunuchs extremely selfishly. Now Zhao Xing took the initiative to put shackles on the heads of his descendants, stipulating that they could only have three wives, which largely avoided the possibility of the emperor's women having fornications with other men because of their dissatisfaction.

Besides, if the emperor's woman really fornicates with other men in the future, it will not be a big deal, it is just a scandal within the imperial family, and it will not easily shake the foundation of the empire and destroy the purity of the royal bloodline. Because future emperors will be handed over to the throne in a Zen situation, not only the emperor's son will inherit the throne, but the descendants of the imperial family will be selected according to their age and ability. Under normal circumstances, the emperor ascended the throne at the age of thirty-five to forty, continued to rule for twenty years, and abdicated around the age of sixty.

In Zhao Xing's view, a person can only have all kinds of talents to rule the world when he is about forty, and after the age of sixty, he will need to give way to a new emperor who is young and strong because of physical and intellectual deterioration.

Zhao Xing is not worried about whether the "succession" system he has engaged in will be restored, because he only plans to work for 20 years, ascending to the throne at the age of 36, and handing over to Zhao Zhenbang, who was exactly 40 years old at the age of 56. If Zhao Zhenbang has problems during this period, Zhao Xing still has seven or eight sons who are eligible to take over.

According to the results of Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji's examination, Zhao Xing is likely to live to be in his nineties, and when Zhao Xing is seventy-six years old, he will witness the scene of his son Zhao Zhenbang handing over to the third imperial successor. When Zhao Xing is ninety-six years old, if he has not returned to heaven, he and his son will witness the succession of the third emperor of the empire to the fourth emperor.

Zhao Xing had a full 60 years to guard the implementation and enforcement of the "Han Charter", which was enough to greatly change the concept of the Han Dynasty and make the system of constitutional monarchy grow and expand. As long as the Han Dynasty did not lose the country, Zhao Xing did not believe that any of his children could defy the heavens enough to shake the charter he had set after hundreds of years.

At that time, if anyone dares to carry out this set of restoration, the people of the Han Dynasty and the descendants of the royal family will not let him go! Because the imperial family at that time must be quite large, there are too many qualified candidates for the throne, and before there are no better "rules of the game" appear, the system set by Zhao Xing is the best, and if a certain emperor does not abide by the rules of the game, the price will be ousted from power by more people who are willing to abide by the rules!