Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 863 0858 [History of Song Dynasty]

Not only has Luoyang turned into a large construction site, but all parts of the country have entered the construction period.

The biggest project is of course the management of the Yellow River!

Because the Yellow River water conservancy project cost too much money and food, the imperial court really did not have the financial resources to carry out other large-scale projects at the same time. Therefore, local governments were encouraged to develop their own water conservancy projects, and the government and the private sector worked together to build them. However, local powerful people were not allowed to seize the opportunity to occupy water conservancy facilities.

In addition, the inn and delivery system were officially integrated this year to facilitate unified management by the court.

Some places have streamlined personnel, and some places have added post stations.

He also reiterated once again that officials at all levels are not allowed to eat and drink for free at the post station. Those who only bring special documents will have this treatment - such as scholars rushing to take exams, delivering important documents, etc.

"Your Majesty, the fourth edition of "History of the Song Dynasty" has been completed." Huan Guo came with his historian to present the book.

Ju Ming asked: "What additions, deletions and changes are there this time?"

Huan Guo said: "Mainly with the help of Liao and Jin historical materials, we compared and corrected some names of people, places and times. Now only the temple name and posthumous name of the faint emperor Zhao Ji are left undecided. There is also the former emperor Zhao Huan of the late Song Dynasty. Not only did he not die, he is still alive. When he became an official in the new dynasty, the historian didn’t know what to call him.”

The reason why Zhao Ji's temple name and posthumous title have not been determined is because this guy can never be seen alive or dead.

Now "History of the Song Dynasty" is about to be finalized, and one must be given.

Zhu Ming began to browse the temple names and posthumous titles presented by the Ministry of Rites, then drew a circle at random, and then added a few words with his pen: "Just decide this for Zhao Ji."

Huan Guo took it with both hands and took a look. He couldn't help but smile and bowed: "Your Majesty is wise!"

The complete form of Zhao Ji's temple name and posthumous title in history is: Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, body, spirit, Tao, Jun, martyr, merit, saint, literature, benevolence, virtue, constitution, kindness and filial piety.

Zhu Ming made it much simpler for Zhao Ji - the leader of Yuqing, Xizong of the Song Dynasty, was the Taoist priest who presented himself to the emperor.

He likes to have fun and have fun, which is also "Xi". He who made mistakes during his lifetime is also "Xi", which is very consistent with Zhao Ji's inherent personality.

As for "Yuqing Cult Leader Weiwei Taojun Emperor", this title was given to him by Zhao Ji when he was practicing Taoism. Ju Ming decided to respect the king's original intention and added the word "dedication" to him.

"Xian" itself is an excellent posthumous title, representing both virtue and wisdom.

It's just that after Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, no emperor used it. Ju Ming felt that Zhao Ji deserved this posthumous title.

Huan Guo didn't bother to remind him that the posthumous title was used incorrectly. Firstly, there was no need to go against the emperor's wishes. Secondly, the emperor's posthumous title had been messed up since the Tang Dynasty.

Take the three generations of Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi as an example.

Li Shimin's original posthumous title was "Emperor Wen", but Li Zhi felt that it could not highlight his father's awesomeness. When he changed it, he found that his father and his grandfather had conflicting titles, so he simply changed his grandfather's posthumous title as well.

So there were three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, namely: Emperor Shenyao, Emperor Wenwu, and Emperor Tianhuang.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty respected tradition more and felt that this thing was too childish, so he added a few other adjectives.

In the Song Dynasty, the posthumous titles of emperors were no longer messed up, but temple titles were used in various ways, which provided a model for later generations of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

With the Tang and Song dynasties messing around, Ju Ming could do whatever he wanted!
Huan Guo asked: "Please tell me from the officials, how should Zhao Huan be called?"

Ju Ming thought for a while and said, "Let's call him Emperor Mo of Song Dynasty. He is still alive, so there is no need to give him a temple name or a posthumous title."

"According to the order!"

Huan Guo asked again: "The existence of the Jin Kingdom was too short. Should its history books be compiled separately? After the national histories of the Liao and Jin dynasties are compiled, should they be called "History of Liao" and "History of Jin", or should they be called "Book of Liao" and "History of Jin"? Where is the "Golden Book"?

This is really a problem!
According to the practice since the Han and Tang dynasties, general history books are called "History" and dynasty history books are called "Shu".

To put it more informally, a book that covers several dynasties is called a "History of So-and-So", and a book that writes about a single dynasty is called a Book of So-and-So.

The "History of Song", which records the history of Zhao and Song Dynasties, should be called "Song Book".

However, there was already a "Song Book" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and no matter how we named it now, we had to break the tradition of compiling history and change it to "Song History".

Zhao and Song had already broken the tradition. Should the history books of Liao and Jin be revised along with them?
Ju Ming thought carefully for a while and said: "It doesn't matter how the history was compiled in the past. From now on, the orthodox dynasty will be called the history, and the Pian'an court will be called the book. The Jin Kingdom lasted too short, and its capital was far away from the border. It can be regarded as the Pian'an regime. ”

"The history books of various countries compiled by our Ming Dynasty are named "History of Song Dynasty", "History of Liao Dynasty", "Book of Jin", "Book of Xixia", "Book of Gaoli", "Book of Dali", "Book of Annan", "Book of Gaochang" 》……”

Huan Guo bowed solemnly, with a very serious expression, because he was establishing orthodoxy.

That is to say, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, only the Song and Liao Dynasties were recognized as orthodox, and the rest were all partial and peaceful regimes.

Chen Ao, the living man, suddenly shook his hand holding the pen, and his focus was obviously different.

The emperor has decided to wipe out all the countries!
Chen Ao was a little excited. Young people, who doesn’t dream of the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties?

However, Huan Guo pretended not to hear anything and bowed quietly before retreating. He majored in the knowledge of "Spring and Autumn", and he was still in Dong Zhongshu's way, originally supporting the emperor to wipe out the countries.

After Huan Guo left, Ju Ming asked Chen Ao: "After you marry the princess, will you stay in the capital and become the Prince Consort, or will you be sent out to become a local official?"

Chen Ao was overjoyed when he heard this: "Guan family, can the Ming Dynasty's consort be released?"

"If you can't become a high official, you can at most be promoted to prefect. If you don't want to be an official, you can come back and become the Prince Consort," Ju Ming said.

As a Jinshi, Chen Ao actually didn't want to be a prince-in-law.

But Zhu Guoxiang fell in love with him, and it was hard to disobey his orders. At the same time, Zhu Guoxiang promised to lift the "guest ban", so Chen Ao bit the bullet and agreed to honor the princess.

The so-called guest ban in the Song Dynasty meant that princesses and consorts could not make friends with ministers at will. If you drink with a certain official, you must report it in advance. The prince-in-law Wang Shen was demoted because of his friendship with Su Shi. However, in the Song Dynasty, there were often exceptions to the restrictions on consorts.

For example, the consort Chai Zongqing went to serve as the general judge of Jeju. Song Renzong was wary of this, so he sent another person to "assist" him.

Even in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, there were several princes-in-law who could lead troops.

The final right of interpretation lies with the emperor.

Chen Ao cupped his hands and said, "I would like to be released!"

"Then I will give you the position of Kinki County Magistrate." Ju Ming said with a smile.

Kinki refers specifically to the thirteen counties of Luoyang Prefecture at this time.

The purpose of agreeing to release the consort as a local official was to appease Chen Ao. After all, it was not easy to become a Jinshi.

But it must not be placed too far, firstly to prevent the prince-in-law from doing evil, and secondly, to facilitate the princess to return to Beijing to visit relatives at any time.

Chen Ao was now broken. He decided to be a civil servant for a few years and get a taste of governing the place.

Then he returned to the capital to serve as the Prince Consort, and gradually promoted his title according to the rules. If he lived a long life, he might be promoted to the title of Duke. The descendants of such Dukes would lose titles at a faster rate, and they would become white after three or four generations. . Unless the descendants can make meritorious deeds and rise again by their own abilities.

……

In midsummer, Princess Zhu Yan of Shu Kingdom got married.

The always frugal Emperor used money from the royal treasury to entertain guests. He also asked his son to give officials half a day off, so as not to get drunk and unable to get up the next day.

Zhu Yan had met Chen Ao and had personal contact with him.

Her first impression was that Chen Ao was handsome, and then she found that the man spoke very interestingly. So we played a few games of polo together, and felt that this person had a good temper, and finally told my dad that we could get married.

On the wedding day, I cried a lot.

The next day, she couldn't care less about Shu. She had the final say in the huge princess mansion, so she could go anywhere and have fun.

The relationship between the couple is not bad. The young couple traveled together and spent their honeymoon around the scenic spots in several counties around Luoyang.

It was not until the autumn that Zhu Yan took office with her husband.

Chen Ao's official post was the magistrate of Yanshi County, which was only fifty miles away from the capital Luoyang. And it's right on the edge of Luoshui River. It's only a day's ride to Beijing by boat. Zhu Yan can go home to visit relatives at any time.

"History of the Song Dynasty" was also printed in the autumn, with five hundred copies printed.

Five copies were collected by the royal family and the imperial court, as well as by various provincial government offices, and the rest were entrusted to booksellers for sale.

Moreover, the imperial court opened up the copyright, and private booksellers could print at will.

The Song Dynasty already had a sense of copyright. If the books you wrote or compiled were stolen, you could report them to the official.

But most creators can't help but be ashamed, and would also like to see their works spread widely.

Those who really want to litigate are booksellers, who occasionally organize people to compile some scientific and educational or popular books. For example, various elementary school and imperial examination books, as well as professional books on various industries, or opera scripts. There is a cost to compile these books. Once they find that they have been pirated by their colleagues, these booksellers will report to the official in anger.

A set of "History of the Song Dynasty" was sent to the Huzhou government office for collection. Zhao Huan got the news and immediately ran to the prefect to borrow it.

The prefect himself was also watching. When he saw Zhao Huan coming to borrow a book, and also borrowing "History of the Song Dynasty", he felt somewhat complicated.

"Please do as you please." The magistrate took a volume of "History of the Song Dynasty" and left, leaving Zhao Huan to stay and read by himself.

Zhao Huan directly searched for the "Ben Ji" section and quickly found the content about himself: "The last emperor of the Song Dynasty, Tao Huan, the eldest son of Emperor Xizong..."

The description of Zhao Huan in this version of "History of the Song Dynasty" is different from that of another time and space.

Many of the parties involved are here and know what the specific situation is!

It records in detail that Zhao Huan was suppressed when he was the prince, thus developing an upright and cowardly character. The main shortcomings are indecisiveness, unclear understanding of people, and being surrounded by a lot of incompetent and cunning people.

Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief after reading it, but then he wanted to cry again. He recalled many past events.

Then looking at his father's history, it was simply unsightly.

The historian did not deliberately discredit him, but truthfully wrote about the good deeds his father had done.

"Ugh!"

Zhao Huan sighed, not wanting to continue reading, and went back to the experimental field to do research.

This edition of "History of the Song Dynasty" edited by the Ming Dynasty tried its best to be objective and fair, and did not include unofficial historical materials.

Even some of the praise (comments) in this book were written by Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming themselves.

Ju Ming commented on Zhao Guangyi and said that the candlelight ax shadow in some unofficial histories was purely conjecture. Based on the legacy of the Five Dynasties faced at that time, if Zhao Guangyi did not succeed to the throne, Zhao Song Guozuo might soon be gone.

Of course, Ju Ming also complained about Zhao Guangyi's racing behavior, and at the same time affirmed Zhao Guangyi's merits in martial arts.

(End of this chapter)