Ancestor Bless: I built a thousand-year-old family

Chapter 362
The major events of the country are enshrined in Rong!

It is one of the most important events in the country for the princes to meet the emperor, which represents a stable ruling order. They have been in Chang'an City for a long time, and the princes who have completed contact with each other walked into the palace together.

Today's Han Dynasty is no longer the initial dynasty that year, and all rules and regulations are basically perfect, and the most important rituals and music are naturally the same.

The ministers stepped into the arena and walked to their positions with different music. The emperor had a complicated process of receiving the princes, which lasted for a long time before reaching the link of paying tribute.

The purpose of paying tribute to the emperor is different. Many officials still think that they can reach the sky by paying tribute to the gods, but most of them are quite satisfactory. After all, it is basically a dream to find a magical thing like Heshibi.

Among all the tributes, the ones who attracted the most attention were those from Lingnan, not the Zhao family of Lingnan kings, but those who were exiled to Lingnan.

Starting from Liu Bang, after the imperial court formulated a special exile policy, every time there were powerful officials or princes, the number of people exiled to Lingnan ranged from a thousand to tens of thousands.

In the past few decades, if Lingnan has not continued to consume these populations, the population in Guanzhong may have expanded rapidly. This has to be said that one of the shortcomings of the mausoleum system is the large-scale import of Shandong population, and these people came to Guanzhong needs to be resettled. It is impossible for the imperial court to starve the people who guarded the tomb for their ancestors. The local powerful forces in Shandong have been weakened, but the annexation of Guanzhong has strengthened, and a large number of wealthy people have gathered together. other negative effects.

The abolition of the mausoleum system in real history is not just the emperor's stupidity.

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. This was the main reason.

The biggest problem is that no new method of suppressing the merger of the powerful has been found, which has caused serious consequences in the follow-up.

The essence of the Lingyi system is to plot to harvest unstable elements in a way that does not completely tear their faces.

The original purpose of the exile was to send people to open up wild lands in a reasonable and reasonable way, and to mix water in Lingnan Kingdom by the way, but in the process of implementing it, the same goal was achieved, which was a win-win situation, meaning that the court won twice.

After looking at the criminal who walked in from the outside, everyone in the arena started talking and even made a bet.

"I don't know how many people will be pardoned by His Majesty for their past crimes during this meeting, and will be able to return to the Central Plains, their hometown or even Chang'an."

"According to the previous practice, the number of people will still not be too many, so I will bet on three people."

"Our Majesty is benevolent. The number of people released in the past few years has gradually increased. Let me guess five people."

The criminals who walked in on their knees felt their palms were hot and their knees started to hurt. Although the surrounding discussions were not clear, they were still quite ashamed. This is the way to treat slaves!
But everyone endured it, because this was an opportunity that was hard-won, and it was the hope of the whole family to return to the Central Plains. No matter how much shame there was, could it be more terrifying than a miserable death in a wild place?

"Sinners pay homage to His Majesty, Your Majesty! All blessings, Your Majesty!"

"What tribute do you have? Present it quickly!"

The tributes from Lingnan were nothing more than pearls, beautiful jade, coral, or beauties. There were no particularly valuable treasures. In fact, whether to pardon them was entirely up to the emperor himself, as long as the emperor said that they were sincere.

Liu Heng looked at the tribute presented. Although it was not extremely precious, it was already a very sincere expression to be able to get such a thing in the difficult environment of survival.

If in the past, he would definitely have encouraged a few more words of encouragement, to draw some cakes for those subjects who were atonement in Lingnan, but today Liu Heng can't wait to use paper to worship the emperor, so he can send these people away with a few casual words, and just Asked: "Where is the envoy of Duke Zhao?"

At this moment, all the officials put away their smiles, and their expressions became solemn, and then they saw Prince Zhao Ban walking into the palace, and four beautiful palace servants were carefully walking in holding a white object, which seemed to have some writing on it.

"The ministers have an audience with the emperor, and they bring this thing as an offering."

Luo Ban bowed and saluted, and then said: "This thing is paper, and there is a gift on the paper, named 'Dahan', to wish the Dahan prosperity forever!"

Paper?
There was some commotion in the palace, and the papers held by the palace servants were quite different from what they had imagined.

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

Ah Jing's Fu written on it is ten times better than the bamboo slips, and all the ministers come to see it. "

So a group of people swarmed up, looking at the unsmudged handwriting, and then at the light paper, they gasped one after another. Everyone couldn't restrain their shocked expressions, and stretched out without hesitation in etiquette. They scratched their necks, and one after another asked the question they were most concerned about: "My lord, how much does this paper cost?"

Another reason why bamboo slips are so popular is that it is far cheaper than silk. The quality of this piece of paper looks so good, so the price should not be cheap.

Luoban laughed softly: "The paper of this quality is naturally a little more expensive, but it is still far lower than silk.

However, there are some papers in the family that are of a slightly lower quality than this, and the writing is also not smudged, but the surface is not as smooth, and the cost of that kind of paper is lower than that of bamboo slips. "

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

This is obviously to replace the bamboo slips as a new tool for carrying words!

The most important thing is that the words that can be recorded on this small piece of paper far exceed the bamboo slips. With this thing, wouldn't it be much easier to spread books in the future?
This thing can be used to gather the wool of hundreds of schools and quickly take the books of hundreds of schools as their own.

This is the first thought of most people, and with paper, there are fewer materials needed to explain the classics, and it is easier to transform from a family of meritorious service to a family of classics.

This can be regarded as cold knowledge. When paper was first invented, and when the imperial examination system first appeared, it actually made powerful families stronger, because these most advanced things were always used first by the upper class.

It is the improvement of productivity that really makes the bottom rise. The reason why the imperial examination system can completely occupy the mainstream is that poor families can also support affordable scholars.

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

After all, except for those very few geniuses, the famous families can study hard every day, but the poor families have to support themselves first, and then compete. If they study for two hours or four hours a day, the final grades must be completely different.

Seeing everyone's shocking expressions, Liu Heng laughed loudly and said, "This is a god bestowed on me by the gods. This is a god bestowed by the gods to praise the majesty of the great man. Where is the artist?"

The court painter quickly stepped out of the queue, bowed and said, "The minister is here."

Liu Heng said with a smile: "From now on, you won't have to paint on silk and walls anymore. You can get paper from the son's class, and record today's situation completely, and name it "Paper Picture Gifted by the Emperor". This will be the world's first painting on paper."

The painter gladly accepted the order. He could already imagine that after the birth of cheap paper, the painter could paint whatever he wanted, and he could paint at any time, instead of having to conceive in his mind first, and then restore it from memory.

When all the ministers were amazed, Liu Heng said loudly: "The birth of Luo paper is an auspicious omen from the heavens. I should tell the heavens that this sacrificial offering will be made of paper full of prose."

The next step in the tribute was that the emperor led the officials to sacrifice to heaven, but now there is only one more sacrifice, and the officials naturally bowed their heads to obey orders.

Standing on the high platform, Liu Heng looked at the dark crowd, recalled the events since he took office, and saw that such a fetish as paper was born in his own time, he felt more and more that he might really be. It is the man who is ordered by the sky.

Liu Heng presided over the sacrificial ceremony in person, put the sacrifices on the high platform one by one, and then held the paper written with Fu, which was dedicated to praise the Han Dynasty, and it was an extremely gorgeous article.

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

A streak of green smoke flew straight out of the sky in an instant, as if it had really reached the sky, as if Huang Tian had really received the news.

Everyone is looking at this scene!
(End of this chapter)