Mound.

The burial place of the Son of Heaven.

Ji Zhao's mausoleum was built in a beautiful place, according to his last wishes, it was not very luxurious, and compared with those later mausoleums that were more majestic than a grandeur, it was far worse.

But the mountain is not high, there are immortals, Ji Zhao is buried here, this is the most sacred place.

Thousands of years have passed, and the vicissitudes of life.

Legend has it that when Luo Shen Ji Ling was buried here, the peach blossoms bloomed all over the entire tomb of King Su overnight.

With countless people coming here, along the straight road paved with bluestone in the mausoleum towards the altar built, the rumbling sound startled the birds in the forest, and the branches and leaves of the peach blossom tree kept shaking, as if welcoming Luojing, who was walking in the front.

Walking to the end of the straight, an altar with a large area appeared in front of you, the altar was completely made of bluestone, and some of the bluestones on the altar even had some cracks, adding some traces of time.

The history of this altar is too long, it was built during the time of King Kang, and King Kang paid tribute to Ji Zhao here, and it was not as high as it is now.

Later, Zhou Tianzi moved east, and it became a place for Luo's ancestors to worship, during the most hostile period between the two countries, Qin tried to cut off Luo's sacrifice to Ji Zhao, but it was soon released, so there was a strange scene, and the children of Luoguo's office swaggered outside Xianyang of Qin.

Liu Che stepped down from the imperial chariot, looked at the slightly familiar scene around him, and sighed with some emotion, it was here that he put on the crown of the summer prince and became a person who was ordered by heaven.

Jia Yi, Luo Jing and others gathered around him, and the attendants put the sacrifices on the altar one by one, the most conspicuous being a medium-sized tripod, which is one of the most critical ritual vessels in the sacrifice, called the "Tongtian Ding".

As the name suggests, legend has it that this tripod can communicate with the heavens, and the people who sacrifice will record the text, and then put the carrier into it, and they can go directly to the heavens.

When everything was ready, everyone's eyes looked at the emperor, and Liu Che's face was full of solemnity.

"Woo~~~"

The sound of a heavy horn, followed by the successive sounding of the instruments, played by hundreds of musicians in turn, is naturally the grandest of the hymns.

"Please take the stage of the Son of Heaven!"

Luozi said loudly.

"Please take the stage of the Son of Heaven!"

The civil and military officials said loudly.

"Please take the stage of the Son of Heaven!"

Everyone who came to King Su's Mausoleum said in unison.

The sound is even higher than the sound of the constantly stroking branches and leaves, like a big drum of a bell, constantly echoing in the peach blossom forest, and the echoes are constantly changing.

The two princes and kings carried the wide robes of the Son of Heaven for Liu Che and walked up to the altar, leaving Liu Che alone on it.

"King Su is above, the minister Liu Che, the son of Zhu Xia, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, led the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty, the civil and military affairs of the Zhao Principality, and the civil and military affairs of the Lingnan Kingdom, and sacrificed to the emperor."

Liu Che inserted the incense and lit the flame in the Tongtian Ding, and then he saw everyone under the altar kneeling down like a tide.

Liu Che himself also knelt down, the Son of Heaven sacrificed to the sky, just like a son worshipping his father, kneeling is very reasonable.

Liu Che crossed his hands and held them high above his head, while the others lowered their heads with their hands crossed and placed them on their chests.

"Hum~"

This is the sound of the strings, and the musicians are the only exception when the ceremony is performed, after all, they are part of the ceremony themselves, and it is impossible to play music and salute at the same time.

The grand hymns resounded, and now, even in the land of Qinchuan, there are no people who can't sing these hymns.

Those people are all anti-thieves, they can't be officials, they can't enter the forbidden army, and they can't come here.

"The gods of King Su are in the sky, and the glory of Zhuxia is eternal!"

After singing it again, everyone stood up, Jia Yi and Luo Jing were holding a cylinder, and in the cylinder were bamboo sticks, with names written on them, and if you looked closely, they were all deceased princes and princesses, and under the names were the nicknames, as well as the explanation of the nicknames.

Since the invention of paper, bamboo sticks have gradually lost their function as a carrier of words, but other functions have been discovered, such as sacrifices, such as carriers of various occults.

The two of them were not in a hurry, and even the height of their feet was about the same, they slowly walked to Liu Che's side, stretched out the bamboo tube, Liu Che took out one, turned over his hand and saw that it was Zhao Tuo, the king of Lingnan Huan.

He threw the bamboo stick straight into the Tongtian Ding, and almost instantly the flames rose up, like a fire dragon, directly devouring the bamboo slips.

"King Su is on top, the minister Liu Che, with the position of the son of Zhu Xia, Shangcheng, the king of Lingnan, Zhao Tuo, Huan!

The Emperor asks for a check. ”

With Liu Che's words, the bamboo slips burned in the Tongtian Ding, and then a wisp of clearly visible white smoke fluttered from the Dingzhong and went straight to the sky.

Everyone's eyes widened, and even though they had seen the scene, they were still shocked, because the wisp of smoke was so straight that it looked like a ruler had measured it.

In this scene, whoever tells everyone that this is actually scientific and is formed normally is to treat everyone as fools, and this is why the nicknames are basically true evaluations that are in line with them, and it is not outrageous for a few to raise or belittle them, because the people who evaluate the nicknames have seen this scene.

Once people really believe that there will be retribution for doing things, and everything has cause and effect, it will really greatly improve people's moral bottom line.

Everyone waited with bated breath for the follow-up results, until the white smoke gradually cleared, and there was no vision, according to Luo's words, this is the Emperor Heaven passed this nickname.

Liu Che took out another bamboo slip and threw it into Tongtian Ding, "King Su is above, minister Liu Che, in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Shangcheng, Wuyang Hou Fancheng's words, Yuanzhuang!" ”

When the Marquis of Wuyang Yuanzhuang and the King of Lingnan Huan were submitted, Liu Che's title changed, and the title of Shangcheng was such a boring process, and it was necessary to submit it one by one, in the Liu Heng period, most of the matters of submitting the name were handed over to Luo Jing, an idler, to do, Liu Heng was very busy and had no time to do this.

However, it is submitted once a year, and it is impossible for someone to die every year, and sometimes there will be no princes and princes who die in a year, so it is quite easy on the whole, but last year I don't know why, there were nine princes and princes who died, which is the most since the establishment of the Shangcheng name system.

Liu Che repeated it over and over again, but there was no perfunctory on his face, and no one under the altar was perfunctory, but engrossed.

This is a very different place in this world, the earth where Ji Zhao lives, there are no real gods, the emperor and those high-ranking nobles used to believe that there are immortals, believe that the heavens exist, so the sacrifice is very crazy.

But with the explosion of the wisdom of the hundred schools of thought, these wise people began to doubt whether there were gods or not, and countless sacrifices, no miracles appeared, so they gradually regarded the sacrifice as a simple act of maintaining the rule.

With such a mentality, it is inevitable that the treatment of sacrifices will be perfunctory, but in this world, miracles are clearly existing, not only in historical records, but even in front of these people's eyes, there are some things that are beyond common sense.

In real history, worshipping ghosts and gods is to teach people not to pay attention to those gods and ghosts, but to pay attention to people themselves, and the key is the word "far".

But in this world, it really tells everyone that people should rely on themselves and not ask for the help of gods and ghosts, but they must be respected, the key is not only "far", but also "respect"!

Liu Che and the ministers quietly waited for the last trace of white smoke to dissipate, and no accidents happened, and all the nicknames were approved.

Liu Che turned to face the ministers and said loudly: "Today, I came to worship King Su and Emperor Tian, there is a major event to announce, this matter is unprecedented, and I dare not implement it if I don't submit it to King Su and Emperor Tian." ”

Jia Yi and Luo Jing looked at each other in surprise, this is not in the process, what does this majesty want to do?

Jia Yi admonished in a low voice: "Your Majesty, may I ask, what is the big thing you are talking about, King Su in person, not a social matter, it is not enough to present." ”

Liu Che smiled when he heard this: "What I want to do is a major matter for the benefit of the country and the people, Prime Minister, I have a question, when will the first emperor die?"

Jia Yi was a little puzzled as to why Liu Che asked this question that everyone knew the answer to, but he still said directly: "Forty years of filial piety collapsed. ”

"Prime Minister, I ask you again, when was Xiaowen forty years ago?"

"Thirty-nine years of filial piety."

Liu Che smiled and said: "You said to me that it was the thirty-ninth year of filial piety, if you were in the thirty-ninth year of filial piety, someone asked you what year it was?"

How Would You Answer? ”

Jia Yi frowned instantly, after the emperor collapsed, he naturally called him by his nickname or temple name, but what about when he was alive?

Jia Yi hesitated: "The thirty-ninth year of the emperor. ”

Liu Che asked again: "Then what year is it now?" ”

Jia Yi did not hesitate and said: "Emperor three years." ”

This time it's not just Jia Yi, everyone understands what the emperor wants to say, the record of time is too confusing, especially the edicts and records, all of which are "emperor's years", once the filing is wrong, it is very troublesome to check the time.

"Please show me to your majesty."

Liu Che excitedly said: "People have a name and surname, so there is a distinction, I want to make a name for the year and month, called the year name, since then, the year has a name, the subjects of the world can call the name of the year, and the documents are all marked by the year number." ”

Dong Zhongshu walked up to the altar with a piece of bamboo slip in his hand, Liu Che took it too high and lifted it high, and then threw it into Tongtian Ding, and said loudly: "King Su is above, minister Liu Che, set up the year name to be the world, Shangcheng, Jianyuan, Taichu!" ”

Tai, Daye, Shangye, the first, the beginning, the first era in history, the first era name, originally to take this kind of great commemorative significance.

Just when everyone thought that everything would go very smoothly, the piece of bamboo slip turned into ashes before it fell into the tripod, and then a new piece of bamboo slip jumped out of the tripod and fell straight into Liu Che's hand.

Liu Che's whole person was taken aback, and he subconsciously reached out to catch it, only to see four big characters engraved on the bamboo slips - Jianyuan, Yuanshi!

Liu Che was stunned, he trembled and turned over the bamboo slip, and then saw that the back was written "Dazai Qianyuan, the beginning of ten thousand materials", and the words were profound.

There was silence!

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"This piece of bamboo slips that looks ordinary is the legendary 'Su Wang gave the Han year name Jane', the history books record that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty invented the year name, and then King Su descended this bamboo slip, so there is the first era name in history - 'Yuan Shi', Dazai Qianyuan, the beginning of ten thousand materials, is the source of this year name." - National Museum

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