Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 410: Eight Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers [End of this Volume]

This year was a very difficult year for Dahan because one of his leaders passed away.

When Liu Chan in Chang'an heard the news, he was extremely sad.

The historical record is: "The emperor cried bitterly"

The entire Chang'an City fell into a state of silence. After Zhuge Liang's death, almost no one in Chang'an City could lead troops to fight against Dayu, and no one was willing to agree to fight against Dayu.

The group of people who once "supported the Han Dynasty" have all died.

When all the people in Chang'an City were confused about their future, many aristocratic families also felt pain - they were not sad about the demise of the Han Dynasty, but were suffering for what they would do after the demise of the Han Dynasty.

Some smarter family heads had already made preparations to quietly send many of their family members, finances, and some truly precious things to their ancestral lands.

For example, the Lu family.

Although Lu Huai, the head of the Lu family, sent some people to hide secretly when the two great families of Wang and Xie left, now that the Han Dynasty has been destroyed, the entire Lu family needs to restrain themselves.

Lu Huai passed the position of head of the family to his eldest son, and then stayed in Chang'an City with his uncle "Lu Qin", determined to live and die with this city.

Weiyang Palace
Liu Chan was in the palace, his eyes still red. He actually didn't care about the return of the Han Dynasty, because he knew that he didn't have the ability to defend this country. If his "father-in-law" died, then the future of the Han Dynasty would probably end here.

He was not actually "incompetent", but compared with his father and the heroes of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, he was really a bit "mediocre".

this is normal.

No one can guarantee that his descendants will be smarter than himself, and no one can guarantee that his descendants will always be "excellent".

There will always be one or two that will "go bad".

At this time, Liu Chan was sitting there with a helpless look on his face. He had done his best.

During the many years that Zhuge Liang was fighting, there was no turmoil in the city of Chang'an - and he truly stabilized Zhuge Liang's rear and was even able to provide relatively complete logistical support.

Is not it?
Not only now, but also during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang went out of Chang'an five times to conquer Wei. How did Chang'an stay stable during those years? Was it really all due to some ministers?
Without certain skills, how could Liu Chan make all this seem so normal?

"Your Majesty is a benevolent monarch."

Cao Mao sat in front of Liu Chan, also with a smile on his face. He said calmly: "But, you and I didn't defeat Dayu after all."

He shook his head and sighed: "Besides, you and I both failed in the same thing."

Liu Chan did not show any dissatisfaction at this time, but said with emotion: "Yes, first of all, we are all coerced by the aristocratic families, so we have to take this path."

"Secondly, the people are on Dayu's side. How many of the people under our rule would rather leave their homes and live in Dayu?"

Cao Mao stroked his chin slightly and said, "I didn't count the number when I was in power, but I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands of them."

"Hundreds of thousands?"

Liu Chan chuckled and said, "After the Great Wei and the Great Han merged, there were a total of 42 million households in the Great Han, of which 1.35 million people migrated to the territory of Dayu, and up to now, people are still constantly migrating towards Dayu."

He said with some jealousy: "The population of Dayu is probably more than 50 million households."

The two looked at each other and saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

There is really no way around it.

It’s not that they don’t want to get rid of the burden of “aristocratic family”, but they can’t get rid of this burden, because this burden has grown on them, just like a big man.

For four hundred years, these noble families almost coexisted with the Han Dynasty. They themselves were a part of the Han Dynasty, and they were also the Han Dynasty.

"What does your majesty think now?"

"Do you want to fight again?"

Cao Mao looked at Liu Chan and asked this decisive question.

"If we continue to fight, I may not be able to control the people on Cao's side."

Liu Chan waved his hand: "Who isn't?"

"When the Prime Minister was alive, these people were already ready to make a move, and now that the Prime Minister is dead, they are even more eager to make a move."

He sneered: "Do they really think they can control me?"

Cao Mao smiled slightly. He was also looked down upon by those noble families and ministers in the past. The consequences of looking down on him should be very clear to them now.

"What is your majesty going to do?"

Liu Chan said without any hesitation: "Kill."

"After killing him, everything will be over."

"They keep telling me that their families are of noble origin. I also want to see if their necks will be tougher under this steel knife than those of ordinary, lowly people they look down upon."

Cao Mao looked at Liu Chan standing there, and the smile on his lips became even brighter.

Harder?
joke.

We are all flesh and blood, how could their bodies be harder than the necks of ordinary people?
"From now on, I'm afraid you and I will have to stay together in Chang'an City."

Chang'an City?
Liu Chan curled his lips and said, "If my father is right, the new capital of Dayu will not be in Chang'an. I guess it will be in Luoyang, Kaifeng, or even their current capital, Linjing."

Luoyang? Kaifeng?
After Cao Mao thought about it for a while, he said, "That's right."

"Both of these places are located in the Central Plains, so they are more suitable as the capital."

He shook his head and sighed: "It's just that the possibility of opening it is relatively small, after all."

Cao Mao pointed in a certain direction in the distance, chuckled and said, "After all, Kaifeng is right next to that place, closely adjacent to that place."

Liu Chan chuckled and also remembered this matter.

"Yes, that should be Luoyang."

"Zhang is not brave enough to set the capital so close to Guandu City."

Yes.

Next to Kaifeng is Guandu City, the ancestral home of the Chen family.

Guandu was not originally called "Guandu". It was renamed "Guandu" because the Chen family migrated to that place. Its original name was "Putian" and "Zhongmu".

When Chang'an almost gave up resistance, Linjing City also received the news.

When the army returned, Zhang Cheng was already standing outside Linjing City to welcome Zu Tianshi.

Prime Minister's Residence
Zu Tianshi took a sip from a glass of wine slowly, then closed his eyes.

After so many years of hard work, we finally saw the results.

On the Han side, Emperor Liu Chan of the Han Dynasty has submitted a letter expressing his willingness to abdicate the throne to Emperor Zhang Cheng of the Dayu Dynasty.

In fact, even the Emperor of the Han Dynasty could have chosen not to issue this edict.

However, Liu Chan, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was a benevolent man after all. He did not want the people in Chang'an to perish along with him and the Han Dynasty like the people of Qin in the past.

So he chose to "abdicate". This does not mean that Emperor Wulie of Qin made a wrong choice. Emperor Wulie of Qin did not force anyone to follow him and be buried with the Qin Dynasty.

It was those "old Qin people" and numerous ministers who wanted to bid farewell to the Qin Dynasty.

These are some of the differences between the two dynasties.

The Qin people are strong-willed, while the Han people are a little "gentle" in their bones.

Looking forward to the same ten years.

winter.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty issued an edict. After three requests and three declines, when the fourth edict was issued, the Emperor of Dayu finally accepted the abdication of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty and finally became the king of the entire world.

After Zhang Cheng ascended the throne, the first edict he issued was to confer a title on him.

Various types of sealing.

The people he conferred the most titles on were dead people. For example, he posthumously conferred the title of "Great Luotian Wude, Great Sage and Good Teacher, Most Holy Teacher, Taizu Wu Emperor" on his father "Zhang Jue" and the title of "Empress Dowager Yiwen" on his mother.

He conferred titles on many deceased civil and military officials, including Zhao Yun, Dong Zhuo, and Jia Xu.

Then there are the living.

The ancestor of heaven was conferred the title of "prime minister" of the first rank, and was also conferred the titles of "Grand Tutor", "Situ" and "Sikong", which gave the ancestor of heaven all the honorary titles of the three highest officials. He was also conferred the title of "King of Zhenwu" - the kind without a fiefdom.

After that, the royal family was given additional titles.

As the Zhang clan had hoped, Zhang Cheng's various titles were granted as promised - but this made them somewhat dissatisfied.

Because all the titles bestowed upon Zhang Cheng were "honorary titles", even the title of "Prince", there was no fiefdom and no actual power, only some "vanity".

But the Zhang clansmen did not dare to say anything because the "Ancestor Heavenly Master" whose hands were stained with Zhang family's blood was still there.

They had already caused trouble when Dayu was established. At that time, they relied on the fact that they were Zhang Cheng's elders, so after Zhang Jiao died, they rebelled together with Zhang Bao and others, and then nearly half of them were killed by Zu Tianshi.

After conferring titles on the "Zhang clan", the next ones Zhang Cheng conferred titles on were the "Cao clan" and the "Liu clan".

Cao Mao of the Cao family was conferred the title of "Gongwang of Gaogui Township", and Liu Chan of the Liu family was conferred the title of "Gongwang of Anle Township". Neither of the two titles had any particularly great power, and they were both just vain.

But for Cao Mao and Liu Chan, this made them very satisfied and contented.

After all these seals were completed, Zhang Cheng made a seal that was both reasonable and unexpected.

Zhang Cheng conferred the title of "King of Dayu Anwu Town" on Chen Zexi, the current head of the Chen family, and the title of "King of Dayu Zhenwen'an" on Chen Mo, the next head of the Chen family and now the eldest son of the Chen family.

The Chen ancestor "Chen Ye" was posthumously named the supreme spiritual leader of "Taoism", also known as the "Taiping Dao", and was on par with his father, "The Great Sage and Good Teacher Taizu Emperor" and "The Three Pure Ones", both of whom were supreme leaders of Taoism.

This title was not unexpected to everyone. After all, everyone knew that after the unification of the world, no matter who became the final winner, the Chen family would be given a title.

And to confer titles on the Chen family, it is necessary to posthumously confer titles on the ancestors of the Chen family.

If there is a place in the world where you can see "kings", then the largest number of them should be the Chen clan's ancestral hall.

In the Chen family's ancestral hall, every ancestor was a king, so they were embarrassed to be listed in the spirit tablet in the hall.

However, after being conferred titles by emperors of successive dynasties, every ancestor of the Chen family seemed to be a "king".

Even in the imperial inheritance of later generations, a hellish joke appeared.

There was a time when an emperor wanted to confer the title of "king" on a person who had never been conferred the title before, so he searched back and forth in the Chen clan's ancestral hall and family tree, but in the end he could not find a Chen clan ancestor who was not a king.
So he simply found a meritorious official who was not from the direct line of the Chen family, and posthumously conferred the title of king on him.

This emperor's posthumous title also served as a reminder to other emperors. From then on, even the Chen ancestors who were not from the direct line of descent would compete for the title.

This is something.

Looking forward to the same thing for the next ten years, late winter.

After Emperor Dayu officially inherited the throne, the world saw a new look, peace and a stable life finally came to this land, and the turmoil that had lasted for a hundred years finally ended.

People live quietly in this world.

In the eleventh year of Pantong, Emperor Zhang Cheng of Dayu changed the era name to "Anping", hoping for peace and stability in the world.

The first year of Anping.

Emperor Zhang Cheng of Dayu appointed his eldest son Zhang Ze as the crown prince and made him regent. It was also in the winter of that year that Emperor Zhang Cheng of Dayu died of illness.

Amidst endless pain, Zhang Ze inherited the throne. In order to commemorate his father, he did not change the reign title and continued to use "Anping".

The second year of Anping.

Zhang Ze ordered the capital to be moved.

The destination of the capital relocation was Luoyang, a city in the Central Plains.

Some of Dayu's ancient families and powerful officials all have their roots in the south, so they are naturally unwilling to migrate. But Zhang Ze knows this, so he wants to move the capital even more.

The aristocratic families originally wanted to rebel, but "Ancestor Tianshi" came to the court on the day they wanted to rebel.

This nearly 100-year-old man, who has made outstanding contributions, has not attended court since the unification of the country, but he attended court today to discuss the issue of "moving the capital".

Beside him, the newly appointed "King An", the current eldest son of the Chen family, "Chen Mo", stood next to Zu Tianshi.

Chen Mo silently expressed his support.

So some people remembered the rumor, the rumor about the identity of the "Ancestor Heavenly Master".

The third year of Anping, spring.

The capital relocation was finally completed.

It was also during this year that many of Dayu's founding ministers died again.

Zu Tianshi sat in his own yard, sometimes feeling pain for his long life.

During this hundred years, he watched the chaos emerge and buried it with his own hands.

Now that the world is finally at peace, he feels that his mission has finally been accomplished.

He wanted to close his eyes and rest, but God did not spare him.

So, Zu Tianshi continued to struggle.

The fifth year of Anping, winter.

Master Zu Tianshi looked at the geomancy map in front of him, looked at everything, he lay down on the recliner in the courtyard, Emperor Zhang Ze stood beside him with a sad look on his face.

"Eight thousand miles of mountains and rivers."

"Father."

"The world is at peace."

【The Three Kingdoms Volume at the End of the Han Dynasty·Zhulou·End】

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