"Build an ancestral temple. ”

The ancestral temple is easy to understand, the ancestral temple, but there is already a similar temple in the palace, and you have to beware of the king secretly melting the sacrificial ritual vessels all day long, why build an ancestral temple?

The sacrificial ritual vessels of a temple are not enough to melt, so they have to be reorganized?

The ministers were puzzled, and the Ministry of Rites was responsible for the sacrifice, so Bo Yi came out and asked: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the ancestral temple?"

Zishou said with a smile: "Naturally, it is the temple of the ancestors, and now there is a temple in the song of the court, which is dedicated to my ancestors of the Great Shang, but it is not only my Shang King who has ancestors, but Zhuqing is also a person with ancestors." ”

"It's like Li Qing's house. Zishou pointed at Li Jing and continued: "His ancestor is Gaotao, Gaotao was appointed by Shun as Dali, in charge of criminal law, so he took the official position of the family as the Li clan, Li Tongli, first the Li family, and then the Li family. ”

"Isn't this Gaotao a sage of the ancients? Countless such sage ancestors have today's great merchants, not the power of my ancestors, in this case, why can't they be sacrificed together?"

"Every ancient ancestor is worthy of respect!"

The ministers suddenly became enlightened, this is a good thing, don't care what kind of virtue the princes and nobles are now, but tracing back to the source, their ancestors are all people who have contributed to the world, otherwise their descendants will not be able to become nobles.

Many people's eyes shine, in this way, their ancestors may also enter the ancestral temple to be worshiped by others, which is much more face-saving than worshipping at home, and they will not be embarrassed to see their ancestors in the future.

Bo Yi thought for a while and asked, "Your Majesty wants to build a temple for the noble ancestors in order to win the hearts of the people?"

It is impossible for the nobles to send money and grain to the big merchants because of this matter, they have a clan ancestral hall in their own homes, and the ancestral temple has no attraction to them.

Zishou explained with a smile: "Buy people's hearts? Why buy, this ancestral temple is built, then set up a statue, first set up a statue of my ancestors, and then set up a statue of other people's ancestors, among the nobles, whoever contributes more, can stand the statue of the ancestor at the top, and those who contribute less will stand below, and those who do not contribute will only leave the name of their ancestor, and do not shape the statue." ”

Bo Yi immediately objected: "Your Majesty, this move is not appropriate! How can the fame of the sages be measured by money and materials? According to the minister's opinion, this ancestral temple statue is worth spending more money and being built by the imperial court!"

Zishou sighed secretly in his heart, you are too loser, how can there be anything in the world that is given for nothing?

No wonder you would rather not be the king of the Lone Bamboo Country to be an official, if you really want to be a prince, you have earned enough good reputation, but not to mention the treasury, even your pants have been lost.

Zi Shou said: "Aiqing, this is not a matter of money, you need to know that everything must be paid in order to have enough returns, if you can easily get a thing, you will not cherish it too much, this is a statue of the ancestors, naturally you have to pay more, in order to show respect as a descendant." ”

In other words, paying is the most intuitive way to express respect for ancestors.

For example, Ji Chang and Ji Fa are the ancestors, and they say that they are in awe of the ancestors, so well, how can you revere the way? Worship yourself in the ancestral shrine? Who knows whether you worship or not!

Do you really revere your ancestors? Are you really a descendant of Houji?

Since yes, why not give money?

When the time comes, people who don't know what to do will go to the ancestral temple to take a look, ah, the statue of Houji is actually golden!

Look at it again, Ji Chang donated money to repair it, so that everyone will know that you are a descendant of Houji? Don't you also feel your respect for your ancestors?

In addition to that, it can also show identity.

The more luxurious the statue is, doesn't it mean that the higher the status? When the time comes, people who don't know what to do will go to the Taimiao Temple to see, wow, how can Houji be in such a high place! It is much higher than Gaotao!

In this comparison, the gap comes out, and people naturally know that your Ji family is one level higher than the Li family.

The ministers discussed for a while and said, "Your Majesty, this move... Although I can make some money and solve my urgent needs, I can ....."

Zishou understood the meaning of the courtiers, although this thing worked, but the appearance was too ugly, and it was easy to ruin the reputation, and the nobles on the bright side rushed to give money one by one, and they were scolded as dogs behind their backs.

But he doesn't care, and even justifies himself, so that the nobles of the whole world can take money willingly, and he can also make them willingly scold and contribute mediocrity, it's not easy!

After discussing for a while, the ancestral temple and disarmament were all passed, and Zishou continued to thank Chonghou Hu and the leaders of the northern tribes in his heart for relieving the siege, thanks to their confrontation with the courtiers, they were barely able to administer.

In fact, the leaders of those northern tribes are also very grateful in their hearts, and after the ancestral temple is built, they are the ones who benefit the most.

In order to return to the great merchants, they made nonsense about their ancestors, but in fact, they were not recorded in the genealogy at all, and their names were not justified, which is also the reason why the nobles of the Central Plains looked down on them.

And the ancestral temple gave them the opportunity to correct their name, whether you are Gao Xin or low Xin, they are all my ancestors, and the ancestors have not said anything about their resurrection, they have all built statues for you to let the people admire, where to find such pious and willing to spend money on the descendants?

Soon, the nobles of Chaoge, who had been bedded by Tian for a while, received first-hand news.

When the head of the Peng family learned the news, he happened to have a small gathering with the head of the Cao family, and when his children entered the forest garden to do business, the two took the lead in going to the court to find an explanation, and the relationship was very close.

And the relationship between these two families can be pushed to the two ancestors, the Peng family is from Peng Zu, Peng Zu is the third son of Lu Zhong, and the Cao family is from Cao An, Cao An is the fifth son of Lu Zhong, and the ancestors of the two families are brothers.

The two of them ate and drank indiscriminately, and they all drank heavily, and they were all drunk.

The head of the Peng family asked: "Brother, the king of Xuan collected business taxes and land taxes, and that's it, today you and my ancestors are stained with copper stench!"

After all, it is to spend money to buy the reputation of the ancestors and the family, and they feel ashamed when they hear it, both of them have a feeling of not breathing through their noses when they have a cold, which is very uncomfortable, but they are helpless.

The head of the Cao family said drunkly: "Yes, the sage of the ancestors, how can money show that? When our clan sacrifices to the ancestors, they are all vigorously organized, and in the past, there has never been a shortage of human sacrifices and human sacrifices..."

"Hiccup...."The head of the Peng family burped and covered his sleeve in front of the mouth of the head of the Cao family: "Brother, don't mention the matter of human sacrifice and human sacrifice, you can't say it." ”

"Hey..."The head of the Cao family may have drunk it: "That's it, I knew it from the time I started it, the king of the Zhou took the pottery figurines to fill the number, and he didn't respect the sacrifice in his bones, I was not surprised at all to make this today." ”

The head of the Peng family asked tentatively, "How much do you plan to donate to Taimiao, brother?"

The head of the Cao family stretched out five fingers.

"Five hundred wen?"

The head of the Cao family shook his head.

"Five runs?"

"Fifty thousand!"

The head of the Peng family pondered for a moment: "Then I have to donate 60,000 yuan, and I hope my brother doesn't mind, the reputation and merits of the ancestors of my clan are greater, and they should be equipped with a better position and a more exquisite statue." ”

The head of the Cao family's eyes widened, and suddenly half of the wine woke up: "Seventy thousand!"

"Eighty thousand!"

"100,000, brother, don't fight for these, my Peng family's sweater workshop in the north has already been shipped. ”

The head of the Cao family gritted his teeth, the ancestors must not be humiliated!

"One hundred and twenty thousand!"

“.....”