Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 535 Centennial Shandong ([-])

One month later

The summer of the sixth year of Duke Yan 330 (546 years)
Lu County (Qufu)
Hou Jingzheng personally led thousands of soldiers to oversee the grave-digging work of tens of thousands of civilians. The tomb of Confucius was dug first.

Confucius was poor all his life and had few funeral objects, so tomb robbers didn’t bother to patronize, and he was guarded by the descendants of the Confucian family for generations. Therefore, for the stability of the regime, the dynasties of all dynasties were not interested in digging Confucius’ tomb.

But these are nothing to Yan Guo. After all, Yan Guo has no ambition to rule the Central Plains for the time being, so there is no need to stabilize the hearts of the scholars in the Central Plains.

Not to mention the tomb of Confucius, even if it is the tomb of Emperor Qin and Han Wu, as long as you encounter it, you must dig it.

If you are dissatisfied, you can come to fight. Why are you so afraid of ants?
Yan Lian originally wanted to follow the example of the Central Plains and restore the human sacrifice system in the time of the ancestor Wang Taihao, but the parliament did not pass it because it was too wasteful of labor.

Although the custom of human sacrifice was eliminated in the Central Plains after the Zhou Gongli system, the system of human sacrifice was still preserved. Even in the Han and Jin Dynasties, human sacrifice was still popular. Maids and servants are brought into the mausoleum.

(During the Tang Dynasty, only the emperor could sacrifice himself. Human sacrifice was no longer a custom, but only the emperor's privilege. In the Song Dynasty, human sacrifice disappeared temporarily, and it was not until Zhu Yuanzhang resumed human sacrifice.)
Many Confucian scholars in Yan State believed that the Central Plains was advanced, and that Yan State should learn from the Central Plains and take the initiative to transform the Central Plains, so the custom of human sacrifice should be restored, so as to be in line with the Central Plains.

If you don't engage in human sacrifices, you are also worthy of being called Yin Shang Zhengtong?
If you don't engage in human sacrifice, you are also worthy of being called Huaxia Orthodox?
It is a pity that in the eyes of Confucian scholars in Yan State, they found that most of the nobles in Yan State are very "short-sighted".

Confucian scholars in Yan State called Wang Taihao, who practiced human sacrifice, the eternal emperor, and belittled Wang Tairan, who abolished human sacrifice. Martyrdom, what kind of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people is this?
They think that ordinary people have suffered all their lives in the world, and they wish to be martyred so that they can go to the underworld to enjoy happiness. As a result, you, Wang Tairan, actually abolished such an advanced cultural system in the Central Plains in order to have more labor to farm. Is it benevolence, righteousness and love for the people?
The nobles of the Yan Kingdom are still too kind. If they sacrificed the common people like the Central Plains family, no one would say that they are cruel.

In this era, even if the ruling class of the Yan Kingdom did all the bad things, it was still considered merciful, because the worse rulers were still in the Central Plains and the grasslands. The class seems too warm and affectionate.

I am afraid of comparison in everything, because with the Central Plains and grasslands as a backdrop, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom did not have any psychological burden when exploiting the common people.

"I have already done more kindness than the Central Plains and grasslands, what do you want from me?"

In fact, it is a kind of happiness in itself to be able to die exhausted in the overseas land reclamation business, because the people in the Central Plains grasslands will be eaten at every turn, even if they want to die exhausted, they are not qualified to do so!

If the people of the Central Plains know that the people of Yan State revolted because they don’t want to open up wasteland, they will definitely think that the people of Yan State are really ungrateful, demanding too much, and have no conscience. Your court of Yan State has given you the opportunity to open up wasteland. It’s fine for you to be ungrateful, but you actually rebelled. Isn’t this heartless?You know, in our Central Plains, wanting to die from exhaustion is an extravagant hope!
The relatively conscientious royal family is always misunderstood as mean and shameless, but the truly mean and shameless royal families of the Central Plains are not cursed, and many ignorant people are envious and flattered. This has to be said to be a kind of sadness.

The requirements for the Wang family are too high, and they always hope that the Wang family can treat the people equally. If they do not treat the people equally, they will criticize the Wang family. The requirements for the rulers of the Central Plains are too low. A cow or a horse can be praised as a wise king.

In all fairness, comparing the previous kings of the Wang family with the monarchs of the Central Plains, if there is no double standard, according to their standards when evaluating the Central Plains, nine out of ten of the previous kings of the Wang family are considered wise!
Even Wang Ting, who is at the bottom of the Wang family, can be regarded as a middle-level among the monarchs of the Central Plains, because among the ruling class of the Central Plains, there are many people who are even more against the sky.

As for Yan Lian, if she doesn't wear colored glasses, doesn't engage in double standards, and evaluates with the same standard, then she is definitely on the same level as Qinhuang Hanwu, or even higher. After all, while she is expanding her territory, Did not halve Yan's household registration.

This is why Yan Lian doesn't care about the life and death of the people, because the rulers of other civilizations, countries, and regimes don't care about the life and death of the people.

Other rulers don't care about the life and death of the people, so why does she, Yan Lian, do the opposite and care about the life and death of the people?

In fact, the one who doesn't care about the life and death of the people is a normal monarch, but the one who cares is a different kind!
Yan Lian is a normal monarch, so she doesn't care whether the people live or die.

The Wang family is always misunderstood as having no bottom line because their bottom line is too high.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have killed you people and prevented you from going overseas to open up wasteland, so that you would have no way to rebel!"

There is an aristocrat of the Yan Kingdom who still maintains the traditional Confucian style, so he really wants to learn from the Central Plains.

It's all because the Wang family's bottom line is too high, that's why they were scolded for having no bottom line.

After a few days, Hou Jing's construction team finally dug up Confucius' tomb. Everyone was very excited because they could get a reward.

Only a few scholars from the Central Plains complained a few words, and after learning that these few of them who stood still were rewarded, they all showed joy.

"Send the bones of Confucius to Yandu, I think the lady will forgive me." Hou Jing was very afraid of Yan Lian, just like he was very afraid of Gao Huan in history.

That's the dog's fear of its master, engraved in his bones.

Before that, he had a hot head, thinking that Gao Huan would support him, and the nobles of the Yan Kingdom spread rumors that Yan Lian died of adultery, so he dared to raise the flag to rebel.

The few nobles who spread rumors that Yan Lian died of adultery were only deprived of their fiefdoms and placed under house arrest for three years. There was no other punishment other than that.

Even with such a light punishment, Yan Lian specially held a meeting with Jiuqing, and notified the nobles of the punishment result in advance, and the formal punishment was only after the majority of the nobles agreed.

Lord Yan is not qualified to punish nobles without authorization. This is stipulated in the "Magna Charter" after Wang Ting's Rebellion, mainly to prevent another Wang Ting from appearing in Lord Yan to harm his people.

Nobles must be loyal to Lord Yan, but Lord Yan cannot punish nobles without authorization, and all punishments must be approved by the majority of nobles.

In Yan State, the relationship between the monarch and the nobles is just a cooperative relationship, not a master-servant relationship.

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Monarchs, nobles, guilds, and citizens, regardless of the small size of the Yan Kingdom, the situation in the Yan Kingdom is much more complicated than that of the Central Plains. Various forces check and balance each other, restrict each other, cooperate with each other, and fight against each other. Sometimes the monarch will suppress the nobles. Cooperate with guilds or citizens to give guilds and citizens more autonomy. Sometimes nobles cooperate with guilds or citizens to give guilds and citizens more autonomy in order to suppress the monarch.

It is the mutual checks and balances of the various forces within the Yan Kingdom that give the guilds and citizens the opportunity to develop freely. However, if one of the monarchs and nobles dominates, there will be no freedom for the guilds and citizens.

This is also an important reason why Yan State was able to take the lead in the emergence of humanistic enlightenment, not because a genius suddenly appeared in Yan State who wanted humanistic enlightenment, but the internal complex situation of Yan State that lasted for hundreds of years gave the soil for the birth of humanistic enlightenment thought. ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)