"Valhalla?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, can you elaborate?"

A gleam flashed in Du Ruhui's eyes, and he asked Li Kuan.

Listen to the name, it is a place to worship the fallen soldiers.

Everyone else also looked at Li Kuan, hoping that he, the so-called Valhalla, could give everyone a good result and make both sides compromise.

Li Kuan said solemnly: "Valhalla, worship in the hall of meritorious people of the country and the nation, and enjoy the fireworks of all the people. ”

"Those soldiers who died in battle for the sake of the Tang Dynasty naturally have the right to stay."

A simple sentence made everyone stunned, and then Fang Xuanling clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful." ”

"The reason why we don't want to deal with the bones of those soldiers with great fanfare is nothing more than that we don't want to have anything to do with the Sui Dynasty."

"But if they are raised to the perspective of the nation, then there will be nothing to do with the Sui Dynasty."

"In this way, the problem will be solved."

"Moreover, it can also show our respect for the military, which is conducive to uniting the national class."

Li Kuan's proposal was accepted by everyone.

However, Wei Zheng raised a question.

"So this heroic spirit is limited to soldiers? Workers, peasants, officials, merchants, can they all be added? ”

"If it's just soldiers, I'm afraid that other people won't want to, no, it's a matter of guilt."

"It's also about contributing to the country, but in the end there is no way to get honor, I'm afraid."

Suffering from inequality, this is the problem raised by Wei Zheng.

In Wei Zheng's opinion, Valhalla is no problem, but it is a bit bad just for soldiers.

"Indeed, the word Yingling represents the meritorious service of the country."

"My idea is that as long as you have enough contribution to the country, you can go up, and you can enjoy the incense of all people after death."

"And Valhalla is divided into four levels: country, province, county, and county."

"We want to aspire to heroic deeds."

The supplement proposed by Li Kuanhou was appreciated by everyone.

A group of people hurriedly began to fill in the matters of Valhalla, dividing the credit claims.

In order not to occupy the land, everyone has always decided to take the ashes back to their own home, unless there is no family can be buried in Valhalla, and the rest are all engraved with portraits and stone tablets to show their existence.

Valhalla's proposal was quickly sent to Li Shimin, who was returning.

Li Shimin highly appreciated this behavior, and he thought it was very good.

In Li Shimin's view, Valhalla can also gather the hearts of the people, gather the hearts of the army, and let everyone focus on the glory of the family and country.

Of course, the deeper idea that Li Shimin agreed with was that the existence of Valhalla would not be overthrown, and even if the Tang Dynasty died in the future, someone would inherit it.

And as long as Valhalla exists, his name will be passed down through history.

How cool is this.

In addition, there is such a thing as Valhalla, no matter where you look at it, it is positive, and together with the effects, no one will think that he, the person who established Valhalla, is a negative character.

Li Shimin was very happy when he thought about it, and before he arrived in Chang'an, he asked people to reward Li Kuan with a bunch of treasures.

This generous preference made everyone speechless.

The feudal kingdoms of various places have also begun to learn to build Valhalla.

The construction of the first Valhalla in Chang'an City was personally selected by Yuan Tiangang, personally supervised by the Ministry of Industry, and supervised by Du Ruhui.

When the common people and merchants heard that Valhalla was going to be built, they all contributed money and some people.

No one wants to be paid.

None of them were cheating.

The stone tablet engraved with the name of the Heroic Spirit in the Valhalla was personally selected by Wei Zheng and carved by the best craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty.

The designs are also designed by the best artists who are recognized as the best.

On the way back, Li Shimin actively participated in it through letters, and he proposed that in order to show the national character, all the people who had made meritorious contributions to the nation in the past should be the first to be added and enshrined.

For example, the two emperors of Yan and Huang, Dayu who stopped the flood, Xia Qi, who created the national system, Zhou Wu and Jiang Ziya, who divided the world, swept away the first emperor of the six countries and established a great unification, chased the north and made Han a national name Emperor Wu and so on.

Count the merits and welcome them into the Valhalla for worship.

After Li Kuan learned of Li Shimin's idea, he felt that this Valhalla suddenly had religious attributes, which was quite strange.

However, he also knew Li Shimin's thoughts, which was nothing more than to add a bunch of historical figures to it, especially the emperor among them, to widen the entry threshold of Valhalla, and he could enter it if he was not good in the future.

After all, for Li Shimin's merits, unifying the world is to sweep away the turmoil and restore peace, and the foreign conquest of the south and the north is his expansion of territory and making the Han people more brilliant.

Either way, it's good for the nation.

Therefore, when Valhalla was still under construction, portraits were painted, the exploits of these characters were written, and propaganda began among the people.

Promote it in the form of a storybook.

Let Datang experience what is called national honor.

At the same time, the honor of the family and the country is also added to it, so as to strengthen the people's sense of honor and better grasp the country.

At the end of the autumn of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin returned to Chang'an at this time, and the first thing he did when he came back was to see the construction of Valhalla.

Then he paid for Valhalla's investment out of his own pocket to speed up the construction.

"Before the end of the year, it must be built, and when the court meeting this year, I will carry out sacrifices."

"I want to pull the style of Valhalla's sacrifice to the level of Mount Tai's Zen."

"In the future, this Valhalla must become a place that represents the historical records of our Han people and the Chinese people."

This is what Li Shimin has thought about a long time ago.

He felt that his thoughts were very frivolous.

What is Mount Tai's enshrined in the world and the world, and what is the family-style tracing back to the roots, I Li Shimin will give you a national inheritance.

This Valhalla is to be hung like this.

Valhalla was built in the Qinling Mountains in order to facilitate better expansion in the future.

Li Kuan shrugged his shoulders at this, he didn't expect that a plan that was originally just to solve the bones of the fallen soldiers of the Sui Dynasty would be raised again and again by everyone, and Li Shimin would put forward one idea after another.

The most important thing is that these ideas have been agreed to by the three provinces and six ministries, and the outside family feudal state.

Yes, the feudal lords of the family raised their hands and feet in favor.

In their words, this Valhalla is dedicated to the Han people and Chinese heroes, so we all have the same blood on our bodies, should we also enter it.

Especially the Valhalla in Chang'an.

Then the royal families of the feudal kingdom have read out the exploits of their ancestors and want to send their ancestors in.

The first thing to do is the Confucian family, and Kong Sheng must enter.

Other families have also sent their ancestors in.

The key thing is that their ancestors have more or less meritorious deeds to the Han people.

Even if the family founder didn't, there were other ancestors.

In short, at least one must be sent in, and they all have the attitude that if there is no place for their ancestors in Valhalla, their own family will be embarrassed.

Li Kuan pursed his lips, a little incomprehensible.

Especially when Li Jing sent himself in, Li Kuan was even more confused, uncle, you are still alive, why did you enter in a hurry?

You are not afraid that there will be too many people who will put incense on you, and you will curse yourself to death.

This made Li Kuan in a trance, feeling that he and the Datang gang were out of track, and he couldn't catch up with everyone's rhythm.

When Wu Mei asked him if he wanted to get a place for himself too, Li Kuan said with a dark face that he would wait until he died.

Wu Mei looked at Li Kuan and didn't care about it, and educated her on the spot.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this Valhalla is a place to worship Heroic Spirits."

"What is a Heroic Spirit? That is a national hero, an existence that enjoys the admiration of all peoples. ”

"If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children."

"The son of a hero and the son of an ordinary person, this is a big difference."

"You don't want your son to go out and be embarrassed in the future."

What's so embarrassing about this, Li Kuan said he didn't understand it at all.

Li Kuan was really confused.

Then Wu Mei snapped her fingers and said, "If your son has an awkward quarrel with the son of the heroic hero in the Valhalla, who are you facing?" ”

Li Kuan was silent, of course, towards the hero's son.

It is their rule not to let the salaried people drown in the cold winter.

"But if you're a hero too, then your son doesn't have to worry about his dad going to everyone else."

Wu Mei said a word to Li Kuangan, good guy, what you said is really awesome.

The title of the Heroic Hero's Son was originally used for fighting.

Li Kuan shook his head and sighed, feeling that Wu Mei was a bit of an evil and crooked way, which was not good.

But he didn't say anything.

Valhalla, with the support of a large amount of money, manpower, and policies, was completed before the Great Dynasty Meeting in the winter of the 17th year of Zhenguan.

(End of chapter)