"When my subordinate sneaked in just now, I saw the word eighty-six written on the plaque outside the palace. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I think about it, it's His Highness's ranking."
Chen Hao said, only then did he understand the meaning of the three words "eighty-six".
"Yes."
Du Xueqing said: "According to the regulations of the Dasheng Dynasty, princes and princesses who do not hold official positions are all referred to by rank. The same is true for palaces."
Chen Hao said: "His Highness just said the princess?
Shouldn't she be called princess?"
Du Xueqing shook her head and said: "Dasheng does not have the title of princess, only prince and princess, but Daning has a princess."
Chen Hao said: "Da Ning?"
Du Xueqing said: "You don't know?"
Chen Hao shook his head.
Du Xueqing said: "It seems that you don't know too much. I need to tell you the whole Dasheng and the surrounding situation."
Chen Hao cupped his hands and said, "I am listening attentively and would like to hear the details."
Du Xueqing said: "Sit down, you don't have to stand all the time."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Chen Hao found a place to sit down.
Du Xueqing began to tell.
After a long while, Chen Hao gradually understood the general idea.
The royal surname of the Dasheng Dynasty is Du. From the founding of the country to the present, it has a history of 530,000 years and has gone through dozens of generations.
Therefore, the name Du Xueqing is really the real name of the Eighty-sixth Princess, and it is a coincidence that she has the same name as Chen Hao's wife Du Xueqing.
Perhaps to avoid taboos, Du Xueqing did not name her father, the current emperor, but called him Emperor Xuanqing based on the current reign of Dasheng.
Emperor Xuanqing was a late-stage Mahayana cultivator and had been in power for thousands of years. Although he was only one step away from ascending to the throne, it would still take at least hundreds of years before he could transcend the tribulation and ascend.
Therefore, Emperor Xuanqing's empire was very stable.
In other words, the Dasheng Dynasty has always been stable and has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, with almost no civil unrest.
Some people may say that this is a dynasty of cultivators. The imperial court has great power. It is meaningless for ordinary people to rebel and will be suppressed in an instant.
Actually this is not the case.
Contrary to what Chen Hao thought, although the Dasheng Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, it did not rule the people harshly like the feudal dynasties in ancient China. Various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed, and the land shortage became increasingly serious. In the end, the people really could not survive.
The Gan uprising continued to grow until the imperial court was overthrown and a new dynasty was established. This cycle started over and over again, which is called the periodic law.
In the Dasheng Dynasty, there were no exorbitant taxes, corvees, or land annexations.
Most mortals have farmland and are self-sufficient. As long as there are no natural or man-made disasters, their lives are pretty good.
Those who lost their cultivated land basically did it themselves, and there were no officials who were like wolves and tigers to cause trouble.
As for governance, the court basically didn't care. Basically, it was rural clan autonomy. If it was a city, it was a combination of large urban households or governance in turns.
Of course, the imperial court would also promulgate laws and regulations to unify characters, coins, language, weights and measures, etc., which would be implemented by yamen at all levels to avoid local fragmentation and division.
These legal provisions are to safeguard the interests of the people to the greatest extent. If the autonomous clans in the countryside oppress the people, then in the fish and meat townships, the big urban households will rely on money and power to bully others and do all kinds of evil.
Then ordinary people can go to the Yamen to complain, and the court will send monks to investigate and solve the problem.
Generally speaking, it is easy for monks to solve mortal problems.
Whether he committed a crime, whether there was a conspiracy, and whether he was a hypnotist, he confessed everything.
Moreover, what monks want is different from that of ordinary people. It is difficult for rich and powerful people to buy off monks with worldly money. This ensures fairness and the interests of the common people to a large extent.
Once the common people encountered any disaster, such as heavy rains, wildfires, demon attacks, evil cultivators causing trouble, thieves blocking the way, etc., the imperial court would send monks to provide disaster relief, provide food and protection.
In this way, the people of the Dasheng Dynasty will naturally live and work in peace and contentment and will not rebel.
Some people may ask, what is the purpose of the Dasheng Dynasty, which neither governs nor collects taxes, but still provides protection to mortals?
Is it to show that Dasheng loves his people like his own children?
of course not.
The Dasheng Dynasty is a dynasty of cultivators. To mortals, they are like gods who are above the rest. Not only do they not love mortals as their own children, but they also regard mortals as nothing more than grasshoppers and ants, not worth mentioning.
So why did Dasheng Dynasty do this?
The answer is simple.
First, the imperial court looked down upon mortal things.
Taxing mortals only levies worldly money and food. These things are meaningless to cultivators.
You know, even the lowest level cultivators in the Qi refining stage can already live without eating the fireworks of the world for a long time.
Cultivators in the foundation-building stage are completely inedible, that is to say, they will not die even if they don’t eat or drink.
Some people may say that you can satisfy your appetite without eating or drinking.
However, ordinary people's food is intolerable to cultivators, not to mention that it is almost the same as pig food.
Cultivators eat spiritual rice, spiritual fruit and spiritual plants, take spiritual elixirs, drink spiritual tea and spiritual wine, and the fruits they use are all spiritual fruits.
After eating these, how can you still swallow the worldly wine and meat dishes without a trace of spiritual energy?
What use are secular clothes, even silk and satin, to a cultivator?
When practicing fighting, a single touch will completely destroy it.
It's better to wear precious clothes or simply use magical power to transform the clothes. You can become whatever you want, free and easy.
What can worldly money, gold and silver, buy?
Can I buy a panacea?
Can I buy magical powers?
Can I buy magic weapons?
Can it be used for practice?
If not, what is the use of worldly money?
The best thing that a mortal can take out is just tatters to a cultivator, and you won't even look at it if you throw it away, so why bother to collect it?
Therefore, it was not that the Dasheng Dynasty loved its people as sons, but that it looked down upon them at all.
Someone may have said it again, if according to this principle, the Dasheng Dynasty was so aloof, it should have ignored the ordinary people and allowed them to fend for themselves.
Not so.
Although the Dasheng Dynasty looked down upon the things of ordinary people, there was one thing they did appreciate, and they valued it very much.
What is it?
That is the common people themselves.
In other words, it is the number of mortals.
Why?
Because cultivators are born from mortals.
Mortals with spiritual roots are quasi-cultivators. As long as they are taught, they can become formal monks.
Although most mortals do not have spiritual roots, the more mortals there are, the more people have spiritual roots. This is a rule that everyone knows.
Cultivators are the foundation of the Dasheng Dynasty. The more cultivators the court absorbs, the more stable and powerful it will naturally be.
For the Dasheng Dynasty, they don't need the things of ordinary people, but they need as many ordinary people as possible, the more the better.
Therefore, the Dasheng Dynasty did not impose taxes or perform corvee labor, but instead protected the interests of ordinary people to the maximum extent.
The purpose is to hope that ordinary people live well, reproduce more, have more children, and increase the population.