Extras: Rules of the Imperial City and Chinese New Year
As we all know, China has worshiped ancestors during the New Year since ancient times. From the emperor to the common people, the underworld stipulated that except for ghosts who went to hell, descendants and believers can receive the sacrifices themselves. However, this custom is not allowed in the royal city.
It's a bit embarrassing here.
Without him, think about how when the dynasty was prosperous, they would pile up into a mountain every New Year. Big pigs and little pigs would rain down on your roof, especially the founding king. If you are not careful, they might be buried - don't laugh.
, Liu Bang had such an experience. His son Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, had no choice but to summon a few obedient descendants to dig it out for him. Emperor Hui of Han, Liu Ying, used the reason that his mother, Empress Lu, made the decision during his reign.
You didn't come here at all, you just reincarnated. This is allowed. Why should you be responsible for the world when you are just a puppet?
But once the dynasty is extinct, the better descendants will be reduced to common people, and there will be fewer sacrifices. The unlucky ones will be extinct directly - they will have nothing, and they will not be able to finish the sacrifices from their neighbors, which is very annoying.
In the past, in Xiaoyitong Town, the Sima family and the Cao family could coexist peacefully because the sacrifices of the Cao family could be preserved. However, the descendants of the Sima family were all killed by Liu Yu, the founding king of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was extremely difficult for them to reconcile. Liu Yu
No matter how good Liu Yu is at fighting, he can't compare to the dozens of people in his family who can set up traps for you from all directions and at any time, and his own children and grandchildren can't stop him. This hatred won't be over until Liu Yu himself is extinct.
But having said that, although these ancient emperors were detained and could not be reincarnated, they also had time limits based on their performance - for example, emperors like Emperor Hanwen who had no mistakes or human lives could naturally go out to practice Taoism after the end of the dynasty and travel freely in the world.
An emperor like Yang Jian, who had both merits and mistakes but not so much influence in later generations, could choose to be reincarnated or stay after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. But if it was Yang Guang, what awaited him would be hell. Don't ask, just ask.
Ask him about the injustice he caused by conquering Goryeo and rebuilding the canal regardless of national strength.
Of course, this is not the worst thing. For example, Hu Hai of the Qin Dynasty and Liu Yu's own descendants would never come to live here. After their ancestors were beaten, they went straight to the eighteenth level of hell.
The last type is people such as Qin Shihuang, Han Wu Emperor and Tang Taizong. Their influence is too huge and their merits and demerits are really difficult to account for. They are permanently deprived of the qualification to reincarnate. However, because of their long history, the first two can go to live elsewhere or live on their own.
Doing some small business in the underworld - but they don't go there, it's a shame for someone who has been an emperor for eternity.
All the emperors who are now staying in the underworld once agreed that the current emperor Zhao Jiu, who did not have a posthumous title, must belong to the last type or the first type.
Later, everyone had a speculation that Zhao Jiu might be able to get the underworld to establish a separate breed for him: because this emperor or official was so unconventional.
Have you ever seen an emperor who only went to the imperial mausoleum to pay homage once in his thirteen years of reign, and it was just to change his father? This was not the turbulent two years before he reigned.
Every New Year, the old Zhao family would be ridiculed openly or covertly, because although their dynasty was not destroyed, the Zhao Guan family never worshiped their ancestors. This glorious and great task was always given to Uncle Zhao, the great emperor.
.But no matter how diligent Uncle Zhao is, the only person who can offer sacrifices to the emperor is the emperor. He doesn’t want to seek death, so he can only burn some paper money and place roast geese to worship the ancestors of the emperors according to their titles. What is Zhao Guan’s family doing at this time? In the tenth year of Jianyan’s life,
On the Spring Festival, he taught fellow men to cook donkey meat in the Taiyuan military camp. In the Spring Festival of the 13th year of Jianyan, he talked heart-to-heart with the craftsmen who insisted on inventing in the laboratory - although at this time he already knew that the ancestors underground were very
Satisfied him.
As for the other clans of Taizong's line, they suffered hardships in the north but were unable to do so. After returning, they were all stripped of their titles and salaries. Although they were powerful, they were very meager and could only simply fry some dried fish for sacrifice. So every time Zhao Guangyi saw him
The disparity between his family and his elder brother's family made him angry at all - Zhao Kuangyin, as the founder of the country, was the first to offer sacrifices to the emperor, and his descendants were doing much better than his younger brother. When the Chinese New Year came, Queen He went to the front of the house
The back of the house was cleaned up for a whole day, and then distributed to the queens he had befriended. After Jingkang was humiliated, Zhao Kuangyin strictly prohibited her from giving any more threads to any of her younger brother's descendants. Zhao Xu could only shamelessly ask his ancestors for some, and others would only know how to do it.
Being beaten. Everyone is dead. There is no rule not to beat children during the Chinese New Year.
This year is a little different. First of all, as the "parents" of the current emperor, Zhezong Zhao Xu and Meng Ruji made many more sacrifices. Meng Ruji, who was new to the country, almost cried out of fear. It was Empress He Zhen who told her the rules to calm her down.
There were too many things in Taizu's house, so Song Yun, who was originally concentrating on practicing Taoism, had to come out to help. Zhao Kuangyin was also excited. He went to find someone to improve his Taizu Changquan during the Chinese New Year, and it happened to be Wan Yan's bone beating.
Very eager to fight.
In the face of the great feud between Song and Jin Dynasties, the founding brothers of the two dynasties temporarily put aside their internal fighting and unanimously spoke to the outside world.
Meng Ruji looked at one of the packets of tea cakes and sighed: "This must have been given to me intentionally by the child Foyou. In fact, I only taught her how to order tea for two years. It's hard for her to still think about me." Zhao
Xu has been happy for several months, but he still hasn't gotten over it. He said happily: "Not bad, not bad. You ordered tea very well. Back then, you said that the country of Yan has grown up..." Suddenly there was a feeling of sadness, and the country of Yan suddenly felt sad.
The eldest princess was his first child and the only daughter of Queen Meng. Both of them loved her very much. When Empress Dowager Renxuan Gao Taotao passed away, Zhao Xu's only purpose of going to Kunning Palace was to see her daughter.
However, it was precisely because the princess was young and sick that Queen Meng's sister brought the talisman water when she entered the palace and asked for blessings from ghosts and gods. The talisman water involved the art of witchcraft and was always taboo in the palace. Meng was shocked and ordered the general to
Fu Shui hid it, and waited until Zhezong arrived to explain the whole story one by one. Zhezong originally thought it was human nature and did not blame him. But later things escalated, and with the constant instigation of his favorite concubine Liu Qingjing, Prime Minister Zhang Dun tortured the palace maid, causing
Queen Meng was deposed for the first time.
The two of them were feeling sad about the past, but Liu Qingjing knocked over the jealous jar and kicked away the unknown sacrifice, saying: "Guan Jia (Zhao Xu), your son gave this to you, you clean it up.
He has nothing to do with me."
Zhao Xu had a big headache and comforted his beloved wife: "You can't say that. Xiaojiu is so ambitious. How many people want a son like this? Who are you talking about? Besides, what's mine is yours."
Meng Ruchi curled her lips when she saw these two people being disgusted, and she picked up a few fish and mushroom tributes and went to Taizu's house - the two grandmothers each liked different tastes, and they both had a respected status and were very kind to her.
Next time you can ask if you like tea, I can order some tea. As for that little bitch Liu, I am so sad for you. How about giving birth to a son? My heir is ten thousand times better than you.
In Shenzong's house, Zhao Xu was too close to his son and was very annoyed. He scolded: "Xiao Liu (Zhe Zong's ranking), you are so useless. There are only two women who argue all day long. You won't accompany me when you have time."
"Lianlian, when your bastard brother comes down, I won't be able to bear the anger for all these years unless I beat him to death."
Song Shenzong thought that the emperor had done well, except for having an unfilial son. If God allowed him to live again, what he wanted to do most was not even to make Wang Anshi reform, but to strangle his eleventh son after he was born.
I am not afraid of death or death, I would rather adopt him.
Zhao Xu smiled apologetically and said, "Dad, isn't this the Chinese New Year? Why don't you go to accompany your grandparents?" In his early years, Zhao Xu had a lot of objections to his mother's new policy of deposing her, but after so many years, no matter what she does, she is still better than his wife Xiang.
After understanding the general situation, we have already reconciled.
Zhao Xu became even more depressed after hearing this, and Fei dragged his son to practice wrestling with Zhe Zong as his sparring partner. Ying Zong and his wife had a good relationship. In the first few years, they sympathized with their son because his wife was unvirtuous and he was unfilial.
Do what you love, don't disturb our love. In the same way, Zhenzong Liu E, Renzong and Zhang (Queen Wencheng) also refused to disturb, so Zhao Xu had no choice but to disturb his son.