A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 305 The system of posthumous names and temple names is established
Driven by Wang Luo, Han Fei began to build a new city in Luoyang.

In addition to building the city, Wang Luo also started the construction of Chidao. After unifying the world, Wang Luo discovered the disadvantages of having an overly large territory. In many cases, due to inconvenient transportation, an edict took one or two months to be conveyed, which was very efficient. It is too low. Even if there is a local rebellion, it will only be known in a month or two, which is not conducive to governance.

So the construction of Chidao began again to speed up transportation connections.But this way, more money and food will be needed.Daqian fought for many years, built a lot of construction projects, and recruited civilians, which cost a lot.Wang Luo was unwilling to raise taxes, and money and food were somewhat insufficient.

But this is not without other solutions. Even Wang Luo has already thought of a solution.

After Wang Luo pacified the Five Kingdoms, he did not deal with the nobles of the Five Kingdoms immediately and allowed them to continue to exist for a few years.

After seeing that Da Qian did not do anything to them, these nobles quickly revealed their true colors and returned to their previous appearance. They even intensified their efforts to exploit the people, fail to pay taxes, and hide their population and land.

Over the past few years, these nobles from the five countries have accumulated a large amount of wealth, which is a huge amount of wealth.

After the large-scale construction began this year, Wang Luo finally decided to take action against these old nobles.

In the past, he was tolerant to these old nobles in order to make other nobles who did not surrender surrender. Now that the world is unified, those nobles are useless. If they were honest, Wang Luo would not mind letting them live, but these nobles did not know how to restrain themselves and violated Huaihe arbitrarily. Lu, then don’t blame Wang Luo for falling out.

As Wang Luo's edict was issued, local officials who had been prepared for a long time, together with the Yulin guards and secret guards, ransacked the homes of these nobles.

For minor crimes, taxes were collected and some land was confiscated. For serious crimes, the family was directly ransacked, and then the whole family moved to the newly opened frontier land.

The frontier land is either bitterly cold, barbaric, or invaded by barbarians. It is not a good place. These people migrate there and want to take root in their lives. There will definitely be a lot of casualties, but this is also necessary.

Wang Luo didn't want to forcibly relocate the people, so he would have to suffer for these old nobles.

At the same time, the confiscated land was transferred to official land and then leased to the people at a rent of [-]%. After the people cultivated it for five years, they could buy it from the government.

There were a large number of nobles in the five countries. Under Wang Luo's edict, tens of thousands of people had their homes confiscated, and then these nobles were forcibly moved to sparsely populated border areas to replenish the population.

After having money and food, various places began to build Chidao.With Chi Dao, Wang Ji will be closely connected with various places.It will also be more convenient to move supplies.

Wang Luo handed over the construction of Chidao to Sun Qian, the Prime Minister, and arranged for more than a dozen royal family members to cooperate.

After becoming the emperor, Daqian carried out restructuring and implemented the county system. However, after a few years, Wang Luo discovered that there were still many problems.From Huaiguo to Daqian, although it seems that it is just a name change, the changes are very big.

Creating a country and establishing a new system requires continuous improvement.If Wang Luo wants to be an emperor for eternity, he must leave a complete system to Da Qian, including a set of political systems for the court.

Back then, King Huaiwen established the Huai Kingdom and formulated the laws of Huai, which laid the foundation for the rise of the Huai Kingdom. Now it is up to him.

"My lords, now that Da Qian is establishing a country, it is natural to implement a new system. Since ancient times, wise kings and wise ministers have wanted to leave their names in history. This shows the importance of posthumous reputation, so Da Qian still has to implement posthumous titles.

In the past 500 years of the Zhou Dynasty, the deceased princes have been given posthumous titles to evaluate their merits and demerits in life, but there are no posthumous titles for virtuous ministers.Therefore, I decided to implement posthumous titles for famous generals and virtuous ministers to evaluate their merits and demerits in life. "Your majesty is wise!" "

All the officials in the hall were very excited.These ministers all followed Wang Luo to unify the world and made great contributions. Almost all of them had titles, and they all believed that their achievements would definitely earn them a posthumous title.

"Your Majesty, if virtuous ministers and nobles can also receive posthumous titles, for a king, just having a posthumous title is not enough to demonstrate the king's achievements. I suggest restarting the temple title system of the Yin and Shang Dynasties." Li Si next to him suggested to Wang Luo .

Li Si was originally an official of the State of Qin. After the surrender of the State of Qin, Han Fei recommended him to Wang Luo. Wang Luo summoned him to take an examination and found that he was indeed a great talent, so he allowed him to serve as an official in the State of Huai. In the past few years, Li Si Later, Li Si handled government affairs in an orderly manner and made many suggestions without making any mistakes.

"The ancestors have merit and the clan has virtues. The name of the temple is named after the ancestors or clan, which is a kind of praise to the ancestors."

"Li Qing's blunt words are very much in my opinion!" Wang Luo immediately agreed.

So he issued an edict that in addition to implementing posthumous titles, Daqian also restored the temple title system of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.The implementation of posthumous titles and temple titles is also a reminder to future generations.In addition to the king, there are also important ministers of the imperial court, including three princes, nine ministers, princes and other ministers. After death, posthumous titles can be discussed.

There is also a difference between temple names and posthumous titles.Posthumous titles are used to praise and criticize the merits and demerits during life. There are upper and lower posthumous titles.People nowadays still value face very much, and they rarely resort to fraud when it comes to posthumous titles.The temple name is a tribute to the ancestors.

"Your Majesty, if the temple name is just for praise, will it be abused by future generations? Just like how can you highlight the good without the bad?"

Nowadays, people still have a sense of shame. After all, it is still very common for ministers to give evil posthumous names to ridiculous kings.For example, King Zhou Li, King Zhou La, King Chu Li, etc.

Sun Qian smiled and said: "The temple name follows the principle that the ancestors have merit and the clan has virtue. Ancestors without merit will not be belittled and will not be given the temple name."

The officials in the main hall thought it was very appropriate. Not having a temple name is a derogation in itself. As the saying goes, everyone else has it, but you don't. Aren't you embarrassed?

Will the ancestors with temple names be put together, and those without temple names together?
"My ancestor, King Wen, moved heaven and earth to the Huaihe River, brought back the old people of the Yin Shang Dynasty, reestablished the Huai Kingdom, established the laws of the Huaihe River, and prospered agriculture and mulberry trees. This was the beginning of today's prosperous Daqian Dynasty. I think we should honor our ancestor King Wen in the temple." Wang Luo said loudly. road.

The ministers responded one after another: "Your Majesty is wise!"

"The most noble temple name is Taizu, which can only be used by the holy king who established the foundation of the dynasty. I think that only the title of Taizu can be used, so I call it Taizu King Wen."

"Yes!" Wang Luo said immediately.

At the same time, giving the emperor a temple name and a posthumous title is a compliment to the emperor, and it is also an inheritance of the Zhou Dynasty and Yin Shang systems.The temple and posthumous title system not only spurs the king, but also spurs the ministers.After all, ministers also want to leave their names in history.A posthumous title can be written on the first page of your family tree.

In the land of China, no one can refuse this temptation.

After discussing the temple name, Wang Luo and the ministers also began to discuss improving other systems of Huai Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)