Shen Tujia was buried in the burial area in the south of Yangling.
Liu Che stood on the city wall of Yanglingyi from a distance and witnessed the entire process.
Yangling at this moment is no longer as grand as it was in the previous life, because the late emperor's reign was too short.
The scale of the entire imperial mausoleum has shrunk by at least half compared to the historically huge Yangling City.
Among them, the size of the burial area and the imperial mausoleum itself has shrunk by almost two-thirds.
Despite this, the cemetery is still a big city comparable to a county town.
For example, the city wall of Yanglingyi under Liu Che's feet was two feet wide and about one foot high. It was like a fortress, firmly guarding the imperial mausoleum.
In the distance to the northeast of the cemetery, the construction of the Imperial Tomb continues.
This is the future resting place of Empress Dowager Bo in the East Palace, which is also commonly known as the Queen's Mausoleum.
This is the most peculiar thing about the imperial mausoleums of the Han Dynasty compared with the royal tombs of subsequent dynasties.
The emperor's mausoleum faces east and the queen's mausoleum faces east and west.
This is the so-called ‘same tomb but different points’.
Starting from Liu Bang, the imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty were laid out in this way.
In addition, because both the Qin and Han dynasties regarded the Zhaomu system of the Zhou Dynasty as a piece of waste paper.
Therefore, the imperial mausoleums of the Han Dynasty had no need to follow the Zhaomu system.
Therefore, Yangling, Baling, and Maoling, which Liu Che had found for him, were not at all on the same horizontal line.
"In recent days, the princes have been very uneasy..." As Liu Che walked, he asked Tingwei Zhao Yu who was following him: "Has Tingwei heard anything?"
Zhao Yu lowered his head and said: "Reporting to your Majesty, I have heard something..."
But in his heart, he couldn't help but tremble.
In the past sixty years of history, whenever the emperor summoned Tingwei alone, it meant that the emperor decided to perform surgery on a group of people.
Especially in the current situation, Zhao Yu was suddenly summoned here by an angel at Tingwei Yamen. He rode the tiger guard's chariot and walked over the road dug by the Shaofu for the construction of Yangling City.
When Zhao Yu came here, the whole process was kept secret.
Even his deputy, Ting Wei Jian, knew nothing about it.
Such a situation has no precedent in the history of the Han Dynasty.
Even when Zhou Bo, Chen Ping and Guan Ying conspired to overthrow Zhu Lu, the confidentiality work was not so meticulous.
What can be compared with this is probably the arrangements made by the Qin court to conceal the news that Bai Qi was a general during the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao recorded in history books.
As soon as he thought that he would soon be able to control the fate of several or even dozens of Hou Gongqing, Zhao Yu, a humble scholar who started out as a swordsman and pen official, couldn't help but get excited.
"Very good..." Liu Che turned around with a smile and praised: "I asked someone to put something in the carriage under the city tower. Aiqing will take a look at it after she goes back. After reading it, I believe Aiqing knows what to do!"
"No!" Zhao Yu bowed his head respectfully.
Liu Che turned around and looked ahead. In the burial area to the south in the distance, more than a hundred princes and their representatives were solemnly watching Shen Tujia's funeral.
I don't know if these guys know what a big mistake they made.
"How dare you go against me..." Liu Che muttered, "You really overestimate your capabilities!"
In the past few days, the political situation in Chang'an has been very strange.
After Liu Che's edict was issued, public opinion and court officials sang its praises.
Legalists and Confucians even loudly shouted: The money system is out of date, and the old money should be put aside as soon as possible and new money should be introduced.
But privately, there is an undercurrent surging.
A large number of people whose interests have been harmed in this reform or who feel that their interests have been harmed have joined forces.
On the literary side, they passed a memorandum signed by sixty-four ranking princes, requesting Liu Che to "suspend the abolition of the money policy in order to benefit the people's livelihood" because "sudden changes in the money system may damage the country's foundation" or even threaten it.
If Your Majesty moves too hastily, there may be internal resentment among the sea and the people will not be able to survive. "The sea is boiling, and the mountains and rivers are in danger of collapsing."
Nima, who are you trying to scare?
If they talk well, Liu Che might talk well to them too.
But they actually threatened me.
Threatening an emperor, no matter what era, is a sign of seeking death.
Since they are seeking death, Liu Che doesn't mind letting them know what nozuonodie is.
Of course, you definitely can't kill or maim these guys directly.
Otherwise, how will public opinion view this?
Moreover, the political situation in Chang'an this time is very strange.
In addition to these princes who jumped out, Liu Che, through the spies of the Xiuyi Guards, found at least two or even three signs that the black hands were instigating and operating behind the scenes and even cheering these people up. Otherwise, those gangs have stayed away from politics, and every day
How could a Lieutenant who was just waiting for death have such courage or confidence?
In addition, Xiuyiwei reports.
Even among the scholars who Liu Che considered to be his basic candidates in the past, this time there was a lot of opposition to waste money.
This made Liu Che very disappointed.
It’s only been three years since the examinations came into being, and the system is far from perfect, and it’s far from having the power to influence national policies.
The scholars who entered officialdom through this system were quickly corrupted.
The Xiuyi Guards and the Supervising Censors reported that among the more than 4,000 scholars in Guanzhong who were assigned to grassroots positions, in the past three years, more than 2,000 of them have had close ties with local wealthy businessmen and powerful people.
Most of them are even married to them.
The remaining people, those who can still stick to their original ideals and concepts, are probably as rare as the giant pandas of later generations.
Although Liu Che never had any hope or hope for this.
The corruption and depravity of officials cannot be stopped by mortals.
However, this time, among the scholars selected from the examination, there were actually a large number of voices that did not agree with Liu Che.
This made Liu Che very disappointed.
This made Liu Che realize a problem: what he needed was not officials from all over the world with various thoughts and demands, nor could he expect such officials to follow him wholeheartedly and unswervingly.
Order.
Because such officials have no idea or understanding of what Liu Che wants to do and how grand the great achievement Liu Che wants to accomplish is.
"I need a group of truly our own people, like Ji An, Yan Yi, Zhang Tang, and Yizong, a new group of officials who know and understand my intentions and are willing to work hard for it, instead of the current group of officials
The examination system is the same. Compared with the old bureaucrats in the past, the selected officials have only expanded the selection basis, but in fact they are still a different medicine!"
After this incident, Liu Che finally realized a mistake he had made in the past.
If you know your mistakes and can correct them, there is no greater good.
Liu Che has decided to correct it next year. (To be continued.)
