The major affairs of the country are enshrined in Rong!

The princes meeting the Son of Heaven is one of the most important events of the country, which represents a stable ruling order, and the princes who have been in Chang'an City for a long time, and the princes who have been in contact with each other have walked into the palace together.

Today's Han Dynasty is no longer the grass-roots dynasty of the past, all rules and regulations are basically perfect, and the most important etiquette is naturally the same.

The ministers walked into the arena and walked to their places with different music, and the Son of Heaven had a complicated process for receiving the princes, which lasted for a long time before it reached the stage of paying tribute.

The purpose of paying tribute to the Son of Heaven is different, and many officials still want to be able to ascend to heaven by paying tribute, but most of them are decent, after all, it is basically a dream to find a supernatural thing like Heshibi.

Of all the tributes, the most striking were the people from Lingnan, not the Zhao clan, the king of Lingnan, but the criminals who were exiled to Lingnan.

Starting from Liu Bang, after the imperial court formulated a special exile policy, every time an official or a prince sat in the law, the number of people exiled to Lingnan ranged from thousands to tens of thousands.

In the past few decades, if it were not for the continuous consumption of these populations in Lingnan, the population of Guanzhong would probably expand rapidly, which has to say that one of the shortcomings of the Lingyi system is that there is a large-scale population import from Shandong, and these people need to be resettled when they come to Guanzhong, and it is impossible for the imperial court to let the people who guard the tombs for their ancestors starve, Shandong's local powerful forces have been weakened, but the annexation of Guanzhong has been strengthened, and a large number of rich people have gathered together, and there are other negative effects.

The abolition of the mausoleum system in real history was not just the stupidity of the emperor.

In fact, there was indeed a problem with the Lingyi system at that time, and it had reached the point where Guanzhong and Shandong would explode if it continued, which was the main reason.

The biggest problem is that no new way to curb the merger of powerful and powerful people has caused serious consequences in the future.

The essence of the Lingyi system is to use a way that does not completely tear the face to harvest unstable elements.

The purpose of exile was to send people to open up wild lands and mix water with water in the Lingnan Kingdom by the way, but in the process of implementation, the same goal was achieved, which was a win-win situation, referring to the fact that the imperial court won twice.

After looking at the criminal who walked in from the sidelines, everyone in the stadium talked about it, and even made bets.

"I don't know how many people will be pardoned by His Majesty for the crimes of the past years and be able to return to the Central Plains, their homeland and even Chang'an."

"According to the previous practice, the number of people is still not too much, so I'll bet on three people."

"Our majesty is benevolent, and the number of people released back a few years ago has gradually increased, so I'll guess five people."

The sinners who entered on their knees already felt that their palms were hot, and their knees began to hurt, and although they couldn't hear the voices around them clearly, they were still quite ashamed, this is the way to treat slaves!

But everyone endured, because this was the opportunity that was won with great difficulty, and it was the hope of the entire family to return to the Central Plains, and no matter how much shame there was, could it be more terrible than dying miserably in a wild place?

"Sinners pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty is all right! Hail to Your Majesty! ”

"What kind of tribute? Hurry up! ”

The tributes from Lingnan are nothing more than pearls, beautiful jade, coral, or beauties, etc., there are no particularly valuable treasures, in fact, whether to pardon them or not is completely from the emperor's own thoughts, as long as the emperor says that they are sincere.

Liu Heng looked at the tribute presented to him, although it was not extremely precious, but being able to get such a thing in a difficult environment was already a very sincere performance.

If it was in the past, he would definitely have to say a few more words of encouragement and draw some cakes to eat for those subjects who were in Lingnan to atone for their sins, but today Liu Heng couldn't wait to use paper to sacrifice to the emperor, and sent these people away with a few words at will, so he asked directly: "Where is the envoy of the Principality of Zhao?" ”

At this time, the ministers all put away their smiles, their expressions became solemn, and then they saw the prince of the Duke of Zhao walking into the hall, and four beautiful palace people were carefully holding a white object and walking in, there seemed to be some handwriting on it.

"The ministers came to see the Son of Heaven and brought this thing to offer."

Luo Ban bowed, and then said: "This thing is paper, and there is an endowment on the paper, named 'Dahan', to wish Dahan a prosperous life!" ”

Paper?

There was some commotion in the hall, and the paper held by those palace people was very different from what they had in their impression.

Liu Heng walked down directly from the top, he had already seen the paper, but looking at the Wenfu on the paper, he still couldn't help but admire: "This thing is really ingenious!"

Ah Jing's endowment is written on this, which is really ten times better than bamboo slips, and all the Qings have come to take a look. ”

So a group of people rushed up, looking at the unstained handwriting, and then at the light paper, one by one gasped, everyone couldn't restrain their shocked expressions, stretched their necks without regard to etiquette, and asked the most concerned question: "Childe, how much does this paper cost?" ”

Another factor why bamboo slips can be popular is that it is far lower than the cost of silk, and the quality of this paper looks so good, the price should not be cheap.

Luo Ban chuckled softly: "This quality paper is naturally a little expensive, but compared to silk, it is still far lower."

However, there are some slightly worse quality papers in the family, which are also not smudged for writing, but the surface is not so smooth, and the cost of that kind of paper is lower than that of bamboo slips. ”

Luo Ban didn't say how high the cost was, only said that it was lower than bamboo slips, which completely shocked everyone.

This is obviously to replace bamboo slips as a new tool to carry words!

The most important thing is that the words that can be recorded on this small piece of paper far exceed those of bamboo slips, and with this thing, wouldn't it be much easier to spread books in the future?

This thing can be used to gather hundreds of wool and quickly take the hundred classics as your own.

This is the first thought of most people, and with paper, less material is needed to explain the scriptures, and it is easier to transform from a meritorious family to a scholarly family.

This is considered a piece of cold knowledge, when paper was first invented, and when the imperial examination system first appeared, it actually made the Haoqiang clan stronger, because these most advanced things are always used by the upper echelons first.

What really made the bottom rise was the progress of productive forces, and the imperial examination system was able to completely occupy the mainstream because the poor could also support the scholars.

But in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system still became a game for the noble clan.

After all, except for those very few geniuses, the Wang family can study hard every day, but the poor family has to support themselves first, and then compete, reading for two hours and four hours a day, and the final results must be completely different.

Looking at everyone's shocked expressions, Liu Heng laughed and said: "This is a divine object given to me by God, this is a divine object given by God to praise the elegance of the Han Dynasty, where is the painter?" ”

The court painter hurriedly walked out of the queue, bowed down and said, "The minister is here." ”

Liu Heng said with a smile: "In the future, you don't have to paint on silk and walls, go to the child's class to get paper, and record today's situation completely, and name it "The Emperor's Gift of Paper", which will be the first painting made of paper in the world." ”

The painter gladly accepted the order, and he could already imagine that after the birth of cheap paper, the artist could draw whatever he wanted, and he could paint at any time, without having to conceive in his mind and then restore it from memory.

When the ministers were amazed, Liu Heng said aloud: "Luo paper was born, this is a good omen from heaven, I should tell God, this sacrifice will be made with this paper full of Wenfu as a sacrifice." ”

The next step in the tribute was that the Son of Heaven led the ministers to sacrifice to the heavens, but now there is just one more sacrifice, and the ministers naturally bow down to the order.

Liu Heng stood on the high platform, looking at the crowd of black oppression, and then recalled the events since he was in power, and saw that such a divine object as paper was born in his own era, and felt more and more that he might really be a person who was ordered by heaven.

Liu Heng personally presided over the sacrifice, put the sacrifices on the high platform one by one, and then held the piece of paper full of Wenfu, which was dedicated to praising the Han Dynasty, which was an extremely gorgeous article.

When the palace people finished reading the article, Liu Heng raised the torch and slowly lit the piece of paper.

The green smoke went away in an instant, straight up, as if it had really reached the sky, as if the emperor had really received the news.

Everybody was watching the scene!

(End of chapter)