A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 178: Border situation, filial piety and integrity
May
Jin Jing, the governor of Liaodong County, wrote to the Han court: "There are some Xia remnants outside the Pass, named Wei Man. They were from the Yan State in the pre-Qin period and the Wei family led a group of people to cross the Xu River eastward and enter Korea to avoid the war in the Central Plains.

When the Yin and Shang Dynasties were destroyed, Korea was established here by the Shang king Yin Shou's uncle Jizi and the Yin and Shang remnants. It was located in the southeast of Liaodong County on a peninsula. During the Zhou Dynasty, it surrendered to the Yan State together with Zhenfan. To this day, it has It is an independent country and is not under the jurisdiction of our Han Dynasty.

After Wei Man took refuge in Jizi, he was granted a land of hundreds of miles by the king of Korea, bordering Liaodong County. He met with the minister a few days ago and said that he might be a foreign minister of the Han Dynasty, hoping to gain the support of the Han Dynasty.

I thought that wars were raging across the borders of the Han Dynasty. If I agreed, it might be a good choice to reduce the pressure on the outside of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, I wrote to the Ming court, hoping to get His Majesty's instructions. "

June
The imperial court issued a document to Liaodong County, saying: "We agree to make an agreement with Weiman, and order Liaodong County to provide assistance as appropriate, but only if it does not harm the interests of the Han Dynasty. We also order Weiman to command the barbarians outside the Liaodong Great Wall and not allow them to invade the border. The barbarians will not be allowed to invade the border. When your Majesty goes to Chang'an for an audience, Liaodong County and the counties along the way are not allowed to prohibit it."

The eighth year of Emperor Han's reign
February
Weiman sent people to falsely tell King Jijun of Korea that the Han Dynasty was going to send a large army to attack, and asked King Zhun to protect him. Ji Zhun didn't know it was a scam and agreed to Wei Man's request. So Weiman took advantage of this opportunity and led his army to march towards the royal capital Wangjian City (today's Pyongyang, North Korea). After capturing the royal capital in one fell swoop, he proclaimed himself king, and the country was still called North Korea.

However, Jijun, the former king of Korea, did not die. Instead, he could not escape to Samhan in the southern part of the peninsula. He led the remaining troops to conquer there and called himself "King Chen". At the same time, he declared sovereignty over the entire Samhan and integrated the three Koreas into A country is called Chen Kingdom, and its court ministers are all composed of survivors of Jizi Korea's southward migration and Chenhan people and Benhan people with similar cultures.

In fact, these Sanhan people are all remnants of the pre-Qin period, but they have been isolated for many years and no longer bathed in royal status, causing them to degenerate and become no different from savages.

March
Weiman sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty and submitted a letter to his ministers.

May
Construction began in the fourth year of Emperor Han's reign and lasted five, six, and seven years. Today, Chang'an City and its city walls, which lasted five years, are finally complete.

The entire city of Chang'an covers an area of ​​about 36 square kilometers. The internal buildings, including palaces and palaces, all face north and south. Among them, Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace occupy the largest area, accounting for about one-third of Chang'an. The Chang'an City Wall built is quite close.

There are roughly eight avenues within it, 45 meters wide, crisscrossing each other. The newly built Chang'an City Wall is twelve meters high and made of rammed loess. According to the opinions of Mohist masters, it is filled with stone strips and placed vertically in the foundation to make the city wall stronger. The entire city wall is nearly 23 kilometers long. The whole of Chang'an was surrounded.

For the future development of the city, about half of the area is still uninhabited and is only surrounded by city walls. There are three gates on each side of Chang'an City, and each gate has three doorways, which are directly connected to the eight avenues in the city.

June
When the Korean delegation arrived in Chang'an, they were very frightened when they saw the mansions in Gaocheng. They also saw the majesty of Weiyang Palace and the majesty of the Han Emperor. He only acted like a small country and did not dare to go beyond the etiquette. After returning home, he told Wei Man everything he said. Weiman made up his mind not to disobey the Han in his life, and sent troops north to attack Zhenfan.

July
Xiuwu Marquis Bai Wei's body recovered as before, and Bian Hong returned to Yanmen County after leaving behind a set of golden needles.

Ten years of Emperor Han
In order to improve the folk customs of the Han Dynasty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered people to know their etiquette and filial piety. He also said that if people are not filial, how can they stand on their own? Filial piety is the foundation of human beings. Each county governor has a quota every year, which is reported to the central government. The central government verifies that it is correct and appoints him as an official. If there is any concealment or false report, the county governor and county magistrate will be held responsible, and the case may be demoted or removed from the official position.

The twelfth year of Emperor Han

October
A county magistrate wrote a letter to promote filial piety and integrity. There was a man named Tian Guangyong, who was born in Anqiu County, Beihai County. He was twenty-five years old. He attended a private school and studied with Confucian scholars for three years. His family only had a few acres of farmland in Dingkou, and there were three people in Dingkou, except Tian Guangyong. There are also my mother and wife.

In the spring and summer three years ago, Tian Guangyong's mother was seriously ill. He prepared medicine and dressed in front of the sick bed all day long, and he never left her bed until today. In February last year, his wife Wang gave birth to a son for him. Tian Guangyong not only took care of her during pregnancy and after childbirth. After becoming my wife, I still wear the same clothes as my mother.

In order to subsidize his family and pay for his mother's treatment, Tian Yongguang not only does farm work during the day, but also goes to the county to do odd jobs. Every day before dawn, he boils medicine for his mother, instructs his wife to wait for her mother to wake up, feed her, and then goes to the fields. After weeding, we quickly rushed to the county town to work.

I didn't dare to stop in the county town at noon, but fortunately the county town was not far from my home, so I rushed home without stopping to feed my mother, and then rushed to the county town to work until dark. I slept not far from my mother's bed every night and paid close attention to my condition. Three years passed like this.

In the past three years, his mother's illness had relapsed many times. Fortunately, Tian Guangyong stayed with her and was treated in time. By this year, Tian Guangyong finally lost strength and fell ill. His wife took over Tian Guangyong's affairs. In addition to taking care of the bedridden mother and son, she also had to take care of the children, the family's land, and raise money for their medicine.

The three elders in the village couldn't bear it, so they came to the rescue and reported it to Anqiu County. The county magistrate thought that the couple was filial to the world, so they gave them several copies of copper coins and cloth to help them tide over the difficulties, and made it an event in Anqiu County this year. Xiaolian's quota was reported to Beihai County.

The governor of Beihai County sent people to check and confirm that it was correct, and regarded it as the Xiaolian of Beihai County this year, and it was the first commoner since the promotion of Xiaolian. The previous Xiaolians in the counties were either recommended by princes or kings, or were children of local wealthy families.
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Changan
Changle Palace

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was reading the memorial. Next to him, Queen Bai Hui, who had three children and became a woman, was supervising the seven-year-old Prince Liu Gong to complete the homework assigned by the prince's young master.

Emperor Han, who already had a dark beard, looked at the happy family below, touched his beard, and smiled knowingly. He took the memorial on the side, which was the list of filial piety and integrity submitted by each county.

As soon as he saw this memorial, Emperor Han felt a headache and sighed subconsciously. Queen Bai Hui heard this, and first told Liu Gong with a cold face: "Do it well and don't be lazy. If you are discovered by me, you will inevitably have a meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots."

When Liu Gong heard this, his little face wrinkled and he could only say: "It's the Queen Mother." After saying that, he buried his head in the book angrily.

Seeing that Liu Gong was honest, Bai Hui walked towards the Han Emperor, sat down next to him and asked, "What's the matter? You're sighing again."

Emperor Han smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just a little irritable."

After saying that, he handed the memorial letter in his hand to Bai Hui and said: "Look, I know even if I don't read it, these are the descendants of some wealthy families or close relatives of princes and kings. I originally wanted to use this measure to recommend more people. Talents and talents will be put to my use.
Who would have known that this would become a way for various princes, kings and major families to install their cronies and disciples. At the beginning, I also dealt with several county governors and county magistrates, and even dismissed the governor of Jiangji County and escorted him back to Beijing. Nothing can be done to stop these people.

Tell me, should I abolish this measure? "

Bai Hui took the memorial and read it. At first, they were all children of wealthy families, including Hanoi County and the Bai family. After all, this was the inertia of large families. But after seeing Beihai County's recommendation, he smiled: "Then Isn't it certain?" After saying this, he handed the memorial to the Han Emperor.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty took the memorial and looked at the nominees carefully this time. He saw that this year Xiaolian was recommended by the governor of Beihai County. His background introduction was as follows: his family was poor, and he and his mother were seriously ill, and his wife was suffering from the hardship of raising a young son. Hard support.

"Okay! Okay, I finally found a breakthrough." Emperor Han said excitedly, and his laughter echoed throughout the palace.

Liu Gong was frightened by this sound and looked up to where his parents were. Bai Hui was also happy for the Han Emperor, but seeing Liu Gong looking here, he said sternly: "What are you looking at? Don't do it quickly, the young master will check it out this afternoon."

Both father and son were yelled at by Bai Hui. Liu Gong quickly lowered his head, while Emperor Han immediately stopped laughing.

Bai Hui said to Emperor Han: "Then what are you going to do?"

Emperor Han smiled and said: "Since we finally have a breakthrough, I will make good use of it and set him as a model. I am going to appoint him as the censor, with a rank of five hundred stones, and send an imperial doctor to his mother and son. Treatment, and at the same time, it is stipulated that each county must have one person with no background in the quota, otherwise they will all be turned back and their quota will be canceled this year.”

Bai Hui agreed: "I also think it is possible, but I think his wife needs to be rewarded. Without his wife's help and supporting the family business after Tian Guangyong fell ill, he would have simply left mother and son alone. , there is no such thing anymore.”

"I agree, but it's up to the queen to reward you. Who calls you the mother of the country?"

Bai Hui rolled her eyes at Han Emperor and said: "You, when you first got married, you were so simple-minded and pitiful. I don't know when you started to learn bad things like those ministers."

The Han Emperor smiled and said: "It's not bad. How can I see through the minds of those ministers? I can't just accept their suggestions. Otherwise, I will be different from Qin II. To be honest, I would like to thank you very much, otherwise With you mediating between me and my mother, I really don’t know how to reassure my mother that I will do my best to take over the government."

"The queen mother is not doing it for your own good. If the queen mother hadn't helped you with some things, you don't know how much trouble you would have had and how many mistakes you would have made?"

"Yes, yes, it's all my fault."

When Bai Hui saw that Emperor Han was starting to act rogue, he knew that it would be useless to talk anymore, so he said: "Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I will reward this Wang family by decree, and Tian Guangyong will be left to you. Remember, you are done. Don’t forget to accompany your mother to enjoy the flowers today.”

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty agreed repeatedly, and after saying that, he lowered his head and continued to deal with state affairs. Seeing this, Bai Hui came to Liu Gong, pulled him to the Queen Mother's palace.

(End of this chapter)