What is the Edict of Exclusion?

As the name suggests, it is the emperor's edict to remove the Marquis of Haidu!

This thing is equivalent to the holy decree of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations.

The Holy Decree, there are some inheritances now, although they are rare, but at least they can be found.

But this kind of imperial edict in the Western Han Dynasty has not been preserved at all!

In the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu, there is still an edict from the emperor?!

It's just shocking.

When Chen Han heard this, he hurriedly took three steps and made two steps, ran to the researcher who spoke up, grabbed his shoulders and asked eagerly, "Where is the edict?" Can you show me?"

The researcher smiled implicitly, nodded, and greeted several well-known Qin and Han archaeologists, and walked into the room with Chen Han and three or five others.

The dozen or so other archaeologists had envious looks on their faces.

After entering the room, the researcher pointed to the wooden slabs that had just been arranged and molded with glass pieces on the experimental table, and said with a smile, "These are the edicts for the removal of the country."

"The content is written in Li, which is quite easy to recognize."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Han and the others rushed forward, picked up a piece of it, and looked at it carefully.

The wooden stump of this edict was in the shape of one foot of Han, which is about 23 centimeters in today's form.

The writing format is two vertical lines, and the writing text is official script.

According to the "Han System", "the three dukes also give advice with the exemption of crimes, and use the official book, with a ruler and two lines of wood", which can be proved to be true.

This should be a standard "forgiveness" edict!

The wooden slips are written on one side, the text is neat, the ink is written in Lishu, and the two lines are written, which should be written by professional knife and pen officials.

The serial numbers on the back of the wooden slab are "two", "three", "six", "seven", "nine", "eleven", "twelve", "nineteen", "twenty-four" and "Hou family".

From this, it can be seen that it should have been no less than 25 editions.

According to what the researcher just said, there are 10 versions of wooden slips in the lacquer box, which are relatively intact, and there are 16 remnants of text.

This number adds up, and it is indeed 26 editions.

Everything can be right!

This is the first Western Han Dynasty edict unearthed so far!

Chen Han couldn't wait to look at the contents on the wooden slab.

Generally speaking, such edicts handled by the emperor and ministers had to go through a series of processes such as "the proposal of the local officials→ the meeting of central officials→ the emperor's approval, which became the supreme will → conveyed to the local authorities step by step" before finally taking shape.

This kind of edict has a clear writing process and accurate forwarding records, and basically constructs a relatively complete writing process and communication system for high-level documents in the Han Dynasty.

Chen Han and several other archaeologists exchanged with each other and read this edict, and they had a rough idea in their hearts.

The edict is incomplete because 16 of them are missing.

However, there are still four parts to it.

It includes the names of the officials who participated in the recital, the recital of Yuzhang Taishou Liao, the edict of the text, and the recital of the prime minister and other officials.

The edict provides the historical facts of Liu He and his family, and the basic situation of the Changyi Kingdom and the Haiyang Marquis.

Among them, the important information includes Liu He's "death in September", the kingdom of Changyi's "six counties as a country", and the "several floods and droughts, many disasters" in the Marquis of Haidu, etc., all of which are not contained in history!

It can make up for the lack of records in the Book of Han!

According to the fact that Liu He died in the "September Yisi", it can be inferred that the exact date of Liu He's death is the eighth day of the ninth month of September in 59 BC!

The calendar used at that time should be the newly created "Taichu Calendar" of the Emperor Wu Dynasty!

The edict also clearly stated that after Liu He's death, Yuzhang Taishou Liao was the emperor of Haidu, and the emperor died of illness, "The first son of Dahonglu died of illness in the country, and the son of the emperor was reinstated, and the death of the emperor was unstoppable."

"Shang" refers to the Marquis of Haidu, which is an honorific title.

And this book by Taishou Liao Wei roughly means that after Liu He's death, Liu He

His son Liu Chongguo also died of illness, and then let Liu He's second son Liu Fengqin succeed to the throne, but Liu Fengqin died of illness again, which is God's desire to make the Marquis of Haiyang extinct!

The content of this official document can be corroborated with the content of "Hanshu Wu Wuzi Biography"!

This once again proves that the history recorded in the Book of Han about the death of the Marquis of Haiyang is accurate!

Combined with the time when the "Edict of National Expulsion" was issued to Yuzhang County "October Jiashen (17)", it can also be estimated that the time interval between the death of Liu He and his two sons Liu Chongguo and Liu Fengqin and the time interval between the removal of the Marquis of Haihuang was less than 40 days.

In other words, from the death of Liu He, to the death of his two sons, to the news that the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty learned the news and decided to get rid of the Marquis of Haidu, it took less than forty days in total!

In the era of the Western Han Dynasty BC, from Nanchang to Xi'an, the two places were so far away, but they could quickly complete all this in forty days.

Well, should we praise Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty for his fast administrative speed, or is it a dark speculation that there is a driving force behind all this?

This thought only flashed through Chen Han's mind for a moment, and he suppressed it.

Continue to read this edict of expulsion.

It can be found through the content of the edict.

The inscription on one of the wooden slips reads, "I wish Dr. Gongqing to discuss the system and say that Dr. Prime Minister is the 2,000 Shi Chenji, Chen Wangzhi, and Chen Changchen ......."

The "system" here represents the emperor, and "the system is called an official" is a program of the emperor's instructions.

The approximate meaning of the wooden slip is: Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to the prime minister and the doctor and others in the two thousand stones, two thousand stones, and asked to convene a meeting of the ministers to discuss the removal of the Marquis of Haidu.

Among them, "Ji" and "Wangzhi" are estimated to be Prime Minister Bingji and Imperial Historian Xiao Wangzhi in the "Eleven Heroes of Qilin Pavilion" during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

They are all famous virtuous ministers in history.

Seeing with his own eyes a piece of wood that recorded the specific governance strategies of these virtuous ministers and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Chen Han suddenly had the feeling that he had traveled through time and space and saw these virtuous ministers and wise men.

It's a very peculiar feeling, and you can't help but shudder!

Words, the carrier of information spanning 2,000 years, can make people feel what the ancients thought and thought 2,000 years ago.

It's amazing!

In the Han Dynasty, there were many vassal states, many of which were expelled for various reasons.

It was recorded in the Book of Han and Emperor Wu that "the princes sat on the temple to offer gold and sacrifice, and the temple was not as good as the law, and there were one hundred and six people".

In September of the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to directly remove more than 100 princes from the country, and there was no need to discuss it.

But the removal of the Marquis of Haiyang is obviously very different.

Not only has it been discussed by the ministers, but it has also been approved by hundreds of officials!

This shows that the content of the edict not only involved most of the imperial court at that time, but also implied the political conspiracy of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, which is the actual embodiment of the political ecology of Emperor Xuan's dynasty.

It can be seen from the edict that Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty is not so powerful and self-respecting in governance compared to his grandfather Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

More often than not, he consults with ministers rather than making decisions on his own.

This is consistent with the record in the Book of Han, the behavior of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and his behavior of relying on benevolence to prosper and even lead the Western Han Dynasty to the peak!

Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was indeed a virtuous monarch!