On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 442 Jinyang Palace
Jinyang Palace was first built in the third year of Emperor Xiaojing Wuding of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It was built by Gao Huan, King of Bohai.

In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang, after Yang Guang defeated Chen Desheng and returned, he became the governor of Bingzhou again. He expanded Jinyang Palace and built a palace wall with a circumference of eight miles and a height of four feet.

Since then, Jinyang Palace has been repaired by Qin Wang Yang Jun and Han Wang Yang Liang. It dare not be called magnificent, but it does not feel old.

It's just that the meeting place is not in Jinyang Palace, but in Daming City.

Jinyang is composed of four cities, one is Xicheng, one is Xincheng, one is Cangcheng, and the other is Daming City.

Xicheng was built by Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. It has a circumference of 27 miles and is called Xicheng because it is located in the west of Fenshui.

Xincheng refers to Jinyang Palace. After Yang Guang expanded Jinyang Palace, he called it Miyagi, and Yang Jian renamed it Xincheng.

Cangcheng was built by Qin Wang Yang Jun in the 16th year of Kaihuang. The east city wall is connected with the west city wall of the new city.

The Daming City refers to the ancient Jinyang City. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Dong Anyu, a retainer of the Zhao family, presided over the construction. Later, it was named after Gao Wei, the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, built the Daming Palace here.

The Daming Hall was magnificent and majestic, which won Gao Wei's favor. For this reason, he once issued an edict to amnesty the world, promoted all civil and military officials to the second level, and exempted the people of Taiyuan County from rent and tax for one year.

Afterwards, the Daming Palace was built on the basis of the Daming Palace, and the Twelve Courtyards were built here, which was far more magnificent than the Yecheng Palace at that time.

Both Daming Palace and Jinyang Palace are located to the west of Fenshui. They are said to be two palaces, but they are also closely connected.

After Yang Hao ascended the throne, Cui Che moved him to Daming Palace.

Cui Che placed all the concubines left behind by Yang Liang in Jinyang Palace, including Empress Dowager Doulu.

Cui Che, on the other hand, used the front hall of Jinyang Palace as the prime minister's mansion, and when it was too late to deal with state affairs on weekdays, he would rest in the side room of the side hall and spend the night in Jinyang Palace.

In order to participate in today's court meeting, Cui Che rushed from Jinyang Palace to Daming Palace. The towering hall with carved beams and painted buildings in this Daming Palace is even more magnificent.

This made Cui Che feel that it was no wonder that the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the same year that the Daming Palace was completed in such a large scale of construction.

Outside the Daming Hall, the guards were heavily guarded. On both sides of the tall and long steps, there were guards in full armor.

As early as when Cui Che entered Jinyang, Yang Liang's previous royal guards had been dismissed, and now these forbidden troops are naturally Cui Che's direct troops.

No matter it was Jinyang Palace or Daming Palace, Cui Che brought soldiers and guards from Hebei.

As Cui Che walked towards the Daming Hall, all the Imperial Guardsmen knelt on one knee and bowed their heads to greet him along the way.

Now it was long past the time for the court meeting to start, and all the officials in the hall had been waiting for a long time, but Cui Che was still waiting, some impatient ministers inevitably whispered, and suddenly there was a loud buzzing.

But as the guards outside the hall greeted Cui Che one after another, and the shouts spread into the hall, everyone knew: Cui Xiangguo had finally come.

For a while, the hall was silent.

Cui Che appeared at the gate of the palace, he took off his shoes unhurriedly,
As the imperial guards shouted one after another outside the hall, everyone knew that Cui Xiangguo was coming.

The ceremony officer outside the hall shouted:
"Xiangguo is here!"

Civil and military officials all straighten their clothes and sit with their backs straight.

Before the Song Dynasty, monarchs and ministers sat down to discuss matters.

In the Song Dynasty, all officials had to stand.

In the Qing Dynasty, even kneeling had a threshold.

Cui Che didn't realize that he was late at all, he took off his shoes outside the hall in a leisurely manner, and then slowly walked into the hall.

Arriving at the forefront of the hundred officials, Cui Che was not in a hurry to sit down, but pleaded guilty to the little emperor:
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I was busy with state affairs last night and delayed the court meeting today. Please punish me."

While Cui Che pleaded guilty, many of his confidantes were paying attention to the expressions of civil and military officials. If there were any differences in expressions, they would remember them in their hearts. Dissatisfied with their own officials.

The little emperor didn't know what state affairs Cui Che was busy with last night, but someone taught him how to respond, Yang Hao raised his hand and said:

"Father Xiang, don't do this. I was young and ignorant, and I depended on Father Xiang to handle state affairs for me. How could I blame Father Xiang for this, and invite Father Xiang to sit down?"

Cui Che bowed and said loudly:
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness."

After Cui Che took his seat, Yang Hao's first formal court meeting since he became the throne finally began, and it was also the last court meeting of this year. It will start tomorrow, and it will be the Yuan Day holiday.

The first issue, of course, was Cui Che's request to reopen the commercial tax.

Now it is an indisputable fact that the national treasury is empty, and if there is no way to increase revenue, I am afraid that Cui Che will learn from Yang Jian's practice in the past, reducing the salaries of officials while reducing the number of officials.

Wei Zheng had said before that as long as the political privileges of the gentry were not touched, and only a [-]% tax and a [-]% residential tax were collected, they would never object to this.

After all, with Cui Che single-handedly supporting the Eastern Sui regime, the Hebei gentry regained the political privileges of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, no longer being squeezed out by the nobles of Guan Longxun, and naturally they would not fall out with Cui Che for the 5.00% commercial tax .

All court officials responded to Cui Che's invitation one after another.

Since the ministers did not object, the re-establishment of the commercial tax was considered passed, and it stands to reason that Yang Hao should review and use the seal.

It's just that before Cui Che played the memorial last night, he had already reviewed his own memorial on Yang Hao's behalf. Cui Che wrote in the memorial with a vermilion pen:
What Xiangfu said is reasonable, and the author has to deal with it. '

That is to say, the establishment of commercial taxation has a lot of implications. In the past, some edicts were written by Cui Che in the Jinyang Palace, followed by the royal pen and Zhu Zhu. He was tired and refused to let Yang Hao accept it.

The second issue is Yang Liang's posthumous name and temple name. Now that it is not the Han Dynasty, the temple name is already rotten, and almost every emperor has one.

Although Yang Liang had lost the battle and became a puppet, Cui Che had to give him a temple name for the first time he raised the flag of righteousness, and as for the posthumous title, it had to be a beautiful posthumous title.

After some discussion among the ministers, Cui Che finally decided to name Yang Liang's temple Sejong.

Shi, refers to the transfer of lineage, from Yang Yong's line to Yang Liang's line.

As for why it is Shizong instead of Shizu, it is because the word Zu refers to the king who opened up the territory and expanded the country.

Both the Western Sui Dynasty and the Eastern Sui Dynasty boasted that they were orthodox in the Sui Dynasty. Yang Liang could not be regarded as the founding king of the country.

In the original time and space, Yang Guangmiao was called the ancestor, because he had the power to expand the territory, but this side power ruined the entire dynasty.

As for Yang Liang's posthumous title, he took a Ming character, which was Emperor Shizong Ming of the Western Sui Dynasty.

To act like the way of heaven is called Ming; to curb evil and promote good is called Ming.

The term curbing evil and promoting good here refers to denouncing Yang Guang for killing his father.

(End of this chapter)