Emperor Zhu Shi walked forward slowly. Although he didn't pay so much attention to the rules, you could not enter the mausoleums dedicated to past emperors on horseback, let alone ride a motorcycle. You had to walk in by car.
This is not an easy job. Walking about a hundred feet forward from Xiamafang is the Dahongmen. After passing the Dahongmen is the 12-mile Shinto Road, and these 12 miles are not flat land, but mountain roads. Changling Island is originally
There are mountains. Firstly, the technical level when building the mausoleum was limited. Secondly, being close to mountains and rivers is also a good place in terms of Feng Shui, so the mausoleum was placed in the mountains. Although the road has been repaired many times, it has its ups and downs.
Walking on flat ground for 12 miles is tiring.
Fortunately, after the second social revolution, the choice of emperor was not decided by the incoming emperor, but by the Upper House of Parliament and the House of Clan for discussion. Although the power of the emperor has been restored in recent years, attention must still be paid to the Upper House of Parliament.
The opinions of the Clan Renmin Court. The first criterion for the selection of the emperor by these two departments is that he has a dignified appearance, is in good health, and can run 10 miles without being out of breath. The emperor selected according to such standards will have no trouble walking 12 miles.
Even the emperor had to walk in, not to mention other people. This was nothing to the worshipers in the Central Plains. They had to take the long-distance running test in their major exams, so they could bear to walk such a long distance; some royal families from the vassal states showed it on their faces.
Although he was afraid of the difficulty, he could not retreat now and could only bite the bullet and follow behind Master Zhu.
The Changling Tomb of Emperor Zhao is the same as the Xiaoling Tomb of Emperor Taizu. The Shinto is winding. After all, Changling Island is just an island. If the Shinto must be built straight, it can only be built on land. There are 12 bends in the Shinto.
There is a pair of stone animals at every corner, including 6 types of lions, deer, camels, elephants, unicorns, and horses, 2 pairs of each type. Each stone animal has a certain meaning. (Please refer to the author's words for specific meanings)
"Tang Ying," Yun Zheng said suddenly as he followed the large army: "Did you know there are things buried under these stone beasts?"
"Is there something buried under the stone beast?" Tang Ying asked curiously: "What is it, why don't I know about it? Uncle Jingzhi's book didn't mention anything buried under the national stone beast."
"Tang Jingzhi may know, but he doesn't dare to write it in the book." Yun whispered in Tang Ying's ear: "Under each stone beast, there is a corpse buried."
"Bones?" Tang Ying was a little scared, but more confused: "Why are the bones buried?"
"During Emperor Zhao's reign, didn't he confer many vassal titles overseas? If the local natives were willing to submit, even if it was a half-hearted submission, it would be fine. Those who were unwilling to submit would be eliminated. In order to achieve victory, the vassal kings would take the lead among the natives.
People, whether tribal leaders or kings among monkeys, were sent to the capital. Most of these people would be executed. When Emperor Zhao was old, he once talked about these people with the prince and said that they would be buried in the Shinto for eternity.
Being trampled by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the tomb-keepers, he is not allowed to be reincarnated, and cannot be reincarnated back to the place where he was born to cause trouble for the Ming vassal king."
"At that time, Emperor Zhao was just joking, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was a good idea, so he asked the prince to do it. The prince summoned all the famous Feng Shui masters in the country to discuss it. The Feng Shui masters thought it was inappropriate, but because His Majesty Emperor Zhao insisted on doing this, they had no choice but to
He put forward the opinion that burying them on the Shinto would not achieve Emperor Zhao's idea and that they must be suppressed with stone beasts. So the bodies of these native leaders were buried under the stone beasts."
"There is such a thing!" Tang Ying exclaimed. She immediately realized that her voice was loud, and quickly covered her mouth. After a while, she let go and said, "No wonder you said that even if Uncle Jingzhi knew, he didn't dare to write.
In the book. If everyone knows this, the foreign media should bombard His Majesty Emperor Zhao with overwhelming force. We don’t care about the comments of the foreign media, but it will give the Labor Party and the Datong Party an excuse to attack the imperial system, so it is better not to make it public."
Tang Ying does not support the monarchy very much, but she feels that if the monarchy is abolished, the country will definitely be in turmoil for a while. Now that their family is living a good life, they certainly do not want social turmoil. Most people think this way, so every time someone
Proposals to abolish the monarchy cannot even advance to the voting stage.
"Only the royal family can know about this," Tang Ying said again.
Yun smiled. Zhu Shihe didn't know about this. In fact, even the current emperor may not know it. But he couldn't say that I knew this in my previous life, so he could only smile.
They walked like this, chatting occasionally, and after two hours, they finally finished the long Shinto and arrived at Lingxing Gate. The emperor and the kings of each vassal country went to rest in the palace nearby, while the royal family behind them were looking for a place near the palace in twos and threes.
rest.
After resting for half an hour, everyone continued to walk inside. Going further inside is the main building area of the Changling Palace, which means that they will soon reach the tomb of Emperor Zhao. Everyone's expressions became very solemn.
Except Yun. Yun almost laughed...
After the Wenwu Square Gate and the Stele Hall, there is the Xiangdian. Generally speaking, sacrifices are held in the Xiangdian. Before the first social revolution, the etiquette of sacrificial rituals was very complicated. You had to kneel back and forth repeatedly. Now it is much simpler. Emperors and feudal lords
With the accompaniment of mourning music and the guidance of the guide, the king walked to the incense table, burned three incense sticks, knelt down and kowtowed three times (because it was impossible for anyone to be older than the emperor who died four hundred years ago, so all participants
Then they all knelt down), stood up and came to the imperial case, knelt down and kowtowed; came to Emperor Zhao's throne again, knelt down to kowtow; came to Empress Zhao's throne again, knelt down and kowtowed.
Tang Ying knelt down in accordance with the regulations like everyone else, and she even felt like crying due to the atmosphere of the scene. Most of the people present sincerely mourned Emperor Zhao. After all, when Emperor Zhao was in power, people's lives had improved significantly. Emperor Zhao
Many of his policies have benefited until now. When the emperor knelt down in front of Emperor Zhao's throne, some people even cried.
'I was worthy of being an emperor in my previous life. Four hundred years after my death, there are still people who can cry when offering sacrifices. Isn't this very rare in the past dynasties?' Seeing this scene, Yun Po thought with some pride.
He quietly raised his head and looked straight ahead. Although his vision was blocked by Xiangdian, his thoughts had already passed through Xiangdian, stepped over Shengxian Bridge, crossed Fangcheng, and stared at the underground palace. Buried under the underground palace were him and Xi
Yao, sister Xiyi. He read the history books again in this life. The day after his death in the previous life, Miao Jin also died of illness and was posthumously named queen. Under normal circumstances, the queen who died before the emperor or died at the same time would be
He was buried with the emperor, but Wenyuan, out of his own selfishness, did not bury Miaojin with him, but found another place to bury him. This was also the arrangement after Siqi's death.
Siqi's later experience is also quite legendary. After Yun's death, she lived for another twenty-six years. Not only did she serve as the empress dowager for twenty years, but she also served as the empress dowager for six years. Emperor Rui succeeded to the throne because he was relatively young.
Being despised by some vassal kings (Wenyuan's eldest son died young and Rui Emperor was the second eldest son), Siqi called these vassal kings to the harem and scolded them, and even detained some vassal kings in the capital for a year or two.
No vassal king dared to slack off in front of Emperor Rui anymore. Siqi was also the first empress/empress dowager/empress dowager in the Ming Dynasty to accompany the emperor in military parades, and her prestige was extremely high. But she never used her prestige to ask Emperor Rui for herself.
She had children, grandchildren, daughters and granddaughters, so she was respected by Emperor Rui. After Siqi's death, Emperor Rui mourned her for a whole year and treated her as his own grandmother.
Yun was quite satisfied with Wenyuan's burial arrangements. Although he did not go to the underworld after his death but came directly to four hundred years later, if he went to the underworld with Xiyao, Xiyi, Miaojin and others after his death,
, he would not be able to explain to Xiyao if Miao Jin was buried together.
There were no burial objects in the underground palace, only a few portraits with posthumous official and title portraits of Wei Zheng, Yuchi Gong, Qin Qiong and others. Before Yun died, he asked Wen Yuan not to be buried with him, and Wen Yuan had to agree. But he felt that
It would be inappropriate to be buried with nothing. At this time, someone said that Wei Zheng, Yuchi Gong, Qin Qiong and others became officials in the underworld after their death, and they could be given the title of high-ranking officials so that they could treat His Majesty favorably. Wenyuan accepted this suggestion, so he
With such a funeral.
Thinking of his wives in his previous life, Yun's expression became a little gloomy. In his previous life, he had been the emperor for fifty years. He had enjoyed all the delicious food and fun things in the world at that time, and even sent troops to conquer and conquer big countries.
Jiangshan is also mourned by future generations, and there is no regret. The only ones who feel a little sorry are Xiyao and Siqi. Although they are only 20% convinced and 80% doubtful about the existence of the underworld, before dying in the last life, they still thought about what if it really happened.
There are many people in hell who want to explain to Xiyao, but he has no such opportunity.
But he suddenly thought: 'If I can come to this life, will Xiyao and Siqi also come to this life? No, I borrowed the body of the first life, they did not; but will they be reincarnated?
'While thinking, he looked at Tang Ying. 'Could Tang Ying be the person they reincarnated into?'
Yun Zheng was thinking about something that was not in line with scientific theory. The kneeling has ended. Next is the last stage of the sacrifice. The emperor and the king of the feudal country will personally place the sacrificial animals, wine, fruits and preserved rice on the imperial table. Some emperors will also
Before the case, I talked about the country’s achievements in the past few years.
But Master Zhu did not do so immediately. He took out a mobile phone from his pocket and made a call. Suddenly everyone was talking about it, and even the guides on the side were surprised: when worshiping the emperor's tomb, all the sacrificial personnel were uniform.
The use of modern technological equipment is not allowed, and the emperors in the past have never openly used it. What is going on today?
"Why did you suddenly call? What important thing happened? You don't even care about the rules of worshiping the tomb?" Tang Ying said in surprise.
Hearing Tang Ying speak, Yun subconsciously answered: "When we first arrived on the island, didn't you say that His Majesty the Emperor would use new things to worship Emperor Zhao this year? Maybe it has something to do with the new things."
"What new things do you need to call to confirm temporarily?" Tang Ying asked again.
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the emperor put down his mobile phone with a happy face and said loudly to the imperial court: "The ancestor of Emperor Zhao, the unfilial descendant Master Zhu has a happy event to tell his ancestor today. Today, at 9:50, Chang'e
The spacecraft has successfully landed on the moon, and astronaut Zhu Shi, your fourteenth generation grandson, became the first earthling to land on the moon."
Before Master Zhu finished speaking, there were already bursts of noise behind him. The Ming Dynasty invented the rocket thirty years ago. After scientists calculated that the rocket could leave the ground when its speed reached 15.6 miles/second, the Ming Dynasty established a space agency.
The struggle for the moon landing began. After thirty years of hard work, the Ming Dynasty was finally able to send people to the moon, completing the four thousand years of Chinese people's dream of landing on the moon!
And this is not just as simple as completing the dream of landing on the moon. The earth's resources have been exploited to the extreme by humans. Countless sociologists believe that under the current circumstances, it is no longer possible to significantly improve people's living standards. But if it can
Developing the moon, and even Mars, Mercury, Venus and other planets will allow the earth to develop again. Landing on the moon is considered by most people to be the first step in developing alien planets. Why doesn't this excite everyone?
"Long live!" Suddenly someone shouted, and then countless people who didn't know how to vent their joy shouted together. The sound of "Long live" rushed into the sky, spread for dozens of miles, and was even left on the dock.
people heard it.
"I hope the aerospace development in this life will not just stop at landing on the moon like in the first life." Yun thought to himself after he was happy. The development of aerospace in his first life only stopped at manned landing on the moon. Due to the huge follow-up investment, the results were short-term.
He couldn't see it, and with the end of the Cold War and the United States having no rivals, aerospace had been stagnant for fifty years. He hoped that aerospace would not stagnate in this life.
Accompanied by shouts of "Long live", Master Zhu placed the sacrifices on the imperial table. They were all livestock and wine and preserved fruits. Except for the preserved fruits, which were a new type of snack, the others were the same as they were hundreds of years ago. These sacrifices were all
It is high-end food that sells for thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram, and will be eaten by the people guarding the Changling Tomb after the sacrifice.
After placing the sacrifices, Master Zhu led everyone to pray four times, and the unified sacrifice was over. After that, the royal family members present could freely offer sacrifices in Changling, either to Emperor Zhao or to other people buried in Changling.
People, such as Empress Xiaojing Zhao (Lan Siqi). However, no one can cross Shengxian Bridge, go to Fangcheng or even visit the underground palace. According to the Ming Dynasty Constitution, no one can go to the emperor, imperial concubine, prince, county king, princess, or princess.
The mausoleums, square cities and underground palaces will all be sentenced to death, even if the person who violates the law is a prince; only the emperor and empress will not be executed, but they will be deposed immediately.
After free activities, Yun first came to the queen's throne, bowed her head and recited a few words silently, and then went to Siqi's tomb to recite. Tang Ying didn't mind seeing that he didn't call her to join him, and knelt down in front of Emperor Zhao's imperial case.
He whispered: "Your Majesty, Emperor Zhao, please bless your fourteenth generation grandson Zhu Shifu, so that he can realize his dreams and realize his ideals. I also ask you to bless me, me, I can marry him as his wife."
