Daliang won the country, the merit is in the world, not the inheritance of the ancestral industry, so the ancestor worship was arranged on the third day of the enthronement ceremony.

The Taimiao Temple, located in the forbidden middle of Luoyang, has been built a long time ago, of course, it was built in the name of the ancestors of the Sima clan of the former Jin Dynasty. It's just that after it was built, for various reasons, the ancestor of the Sima clan has not been enshrined, and now it is still ten percent new, and it has finally ushered in a new owner.

Prior to this, the Shen family already had two temples, the first one was naturally the ancestral temple located in the old house of Longxi in Wukang, and the second was the family temple set up in the feudal state of Liang County when Shen Zhezi was awarded the title of Duke of Liang. Of course, if you want to talk about the high standard, it is naturally the third Taimiao in Luoyang.

This time to worship the ancestors, it can be regarded as a relatively pure imperial family matter, after all, the ancestors of the Shen family have not served as any humane venerables. Therefore, the festival does not need all the ministers to attend, but after all, it is also selfless, and it also involves the posthumous respect of the ancestors of the Shen family, because it is followed by a ceremonial official in Taiwan.

This time, the ancestor worship was mainly attended by the Shen clan, and Shen Chong, as the father of the emperor who was still alive, was ruthlessly expelled from the country. After all, sharing a son with Haotian has been out of the realm of mortals, and if he attends, where should the emperor stand? You don't have to participate directly, just wait for the ceremony.

However, Shen Chong doesn't have to be lonely because of this, he has already entered the Taimiao from Xuanren Town yesterday to worship the ancestors, but whether he showed off in front of the ancestors If he is not coincidental, otherwise the ancestors and townsmen will have the honor to respect the Taimiao, it is unknown.

Although the Wuxing Shen clan is not a famous old family of Shilu, it is also a deep-rooted Wuzhong giant family, and the records of the family lineage are very clear, and the farthest can be traced back to the Guangwu Zhongxing period after the Han Guanglu Xun Shen Rong, but in terms of Taimiao sacrifice, there is no such a long precedent and necessity.

In terms of honoring the ancestors, Shen Zhezi also consulted his father Shen Chong's opinion, and decided to only trace back to the three generations. Daddy Shen Chongshang is still alive. itself has already occupied a place, and the grandfather of the previous generation of Shen Zhezi, Shen Lan, was posthumously honored as Emperor Shizu Yuan, and his grandfather Shen Kui was posthumously honored as Emperor Guang.

Originally, my father still hoped to add a temple number to his grandfather Shen Kui, but the temple number was still relatively strict during this period. Especially Liang Xinli, flaunting the Qin and Han dynasties, even Shen Zhezi's own grandfather was able to add the temple number because his grandson's achievements were too prosperous and his prestige was too high.

Shen Zhezi has never even seen his grandfather, let alone his grandfather, and he is not very emotionally deep, he only knows that this grandfather can be said to be an opportunity for their Longxi Sect to rise, but if he really traces his deeds, he only served as a townsman in the late Han Dynasty. However, his grandfather Shen Lan did indeed hold a military position in the Eastern Wu Imperial Court.

As for Shen Ying, the Taishou of Dongwu Danyang, who was forcibly pulled up in the early years in order to put gold on his face, in fact, from the perspective of blood, he is not close to their Wukang Dongzong Longxi branch.

Carefully combing the Shen family's development route made Shen Zhezi feel a sense of the vicissitudes of the world. His grandfather's generation, is just a small village official, barely has the qualifications in the fish and meat township, to his grandfather's generation has improved slightly, barely able to catch up with the tail of the landlords and wealthy families in Dongwu, and when his father Shen Chong is in charge, he seems to have become the leading local tyrant in Jiangdong, especially after the Yixing Zhou family is lonely, it has become the head of Jiangdong.

In Shen Zhezi's generation, the span is even greater, from a mere local tyrant to a country, and a leap to enjoy the country's imperial family!

There are many historical perspectives, and if you focus on the growth of the Shen family, it can also reflect the changes of the entire era. For example, his grandfather's generation, still in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the development process of the Shen family at this stage can be regarded as an open way to rise for the Hanshu Qianshou under the historical background of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The growth of Shen Zhezi's generation is enough to show the magnificence of the world and the drastic changes in the upper and lower classes. Of course, this can also be reflected from Shi Le, the ancestor of Later Zhao, and the judgment of Yunni before and after is far worse than Shen Zhezi.

The charm of history probably lies in this, the emperor will be the prime minister, rather there is a kind?

However, there is no law to follow for such a strong change in circumstances that is specific to individuals, nor is it completed under the background of the operation of the normal social order.

The greatness of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties lies in the fact that the sharing of political resources can be said to have opened up the bridge between heaven and earth at once, and this penetrating force is comparable to that of the Qin Dynasty, and the imperial authority of Qi Min was directly linked to each specific common people.

From then on, even if it is a Qiantou, if you want to achieve the climb of the class and the change of opportunities, you have a path of institutional dependence. A person's struggle and success can be accomplished through the system of regulations, and is no longer just a hundred years of accumulation of lingering shadows for several generations, or an unconventional opportunity brought about by the collapse of the world order.

Thinking of the reform of the talent selection system by hanging the ancestors in the Taimiao, Shen Zhezi only tasted it. This is a long-term task, not a hot mind can achieve results, and as early as more than ten years ago, he has begun to consciously carry out various preparations in the early stage, including the official examination implemented by the previous stage, all in order to create a prerequisite atmosphere for the reform of the imperial examination system.

Of course, if you want to rely on the rise of the Shu landlord Jinshi group, you want to solve the remnants of the previous political form in just one or two generations, and you can't help but be a little optimistic. Compared with the decentralization of knowledge, the Jinshi group as a new political force to play its supposed positive significance, still needs the awakening of consciousness and the improvement of political consciousness, which is also a long way to go.

In real history, the Shu Jinshi showed their strength as a political force, such as the Tang Dynasty Niu Li Party Struggle, which was actually a not very glorious image.

Niu Shengyu and Bai Minzhong, as the representatives of the Jinshi bureaucracy, suddenly gained great power, and they were unable to effectively combine their own authority with the great plan of the society, and the authority they held was only a tool for the party to fight against differences and pursue selfish interests. Although Bai Minzhong has a cousin Bai Juyi who is very famous in poetry, he has only been "ugly" in his life.

On the contrary, Li Deyu, who was born in the Li family of Zhao County, although he is regarded as a representative of the declining gate lord family, shows a real Zaifu style and has a lot of merit to the survival of Li Tang Sheji.

Of course, the specific level of political literacy of individuals or the political struggle at a certain stage is not enough to explain the large-scale problem. For example, Li Deyu's father, Li Jifu, is not a great figure.

Therefore, although Shen Zhezi has established the general policy of the imperial examination reform, he is still waiting for a suitable opportunity in terms of specific implementation and implementation. At the very least, it will be necessary to wait until the North-South reunification has achieved some success, and the social order has been restored to a level that can accommodate a certain degree of turmoil. Until then, there is still a need for preparation and accumulation.

He is coming, he is coming, raising his hand is to give you a hammer, Shen Zhezi is not unwilling to bear the pain, but he needs to consider the bearing capacity of the new dynasty of the Great Liang. For example, the Grand Canal is beneficial for thousands of years, but at that time, it was a neck rope that strangled the Great Sui Dynasty. With a thousand years of vision in mind, he fell and broke his leg in a shallow pit under his feet.

Putting aside these distractions, Shen Zhezi focused on the current ancestor worship ceremony. Although there are only two people who have won the honor of the ancestors of the Shen family, it is not only these two that need to be worshiped in the Taimiao, and there are hundreds of tablets in front and back of other ancestors.

These ancestors who were not allowed to set up temples to enjoy the sacrifices, although they were set up to enjoy the sacrifices in today's ancestor worship ceremony, but from then on, they will not be enshrined in the temple, but need to be returned to the temple.

The temple of the Son of Heaven is the seventh generation. Even if you are the Son of Heaven, you can only enjoy the right to worship and sacrifice for seven generations, and you need to move away from the temple after the seventh generation, and the lord of the temple is hidden in the temple, which means the temple of distant ancestors, and there are only two places to worship that are the so-called two temples.

After other ancestors entered, they naturally could not enjoy the position of the main sacrifice, and could only stay in the mezzanine, and their status was naturally greatly reduced. Of course, at present, Liang Xinli, even if it is just to make up the number of four relatives and two ancestors and seven temples, the number of places is quite sufficient, there are temples but no number, only Zhao and Mu are commensurate, but when Shen Chong is old and enters the Taimiao, there will be an ancestor who can enjoy independent sacrifices and need to enter the temple.

Of course, there will naturally be special cases if there are rules, and there are merits in literature and martial arts, and they are not secretive, and those who stand are not temples. The so-called eternal immortality can be said to be the greatest praise for an emperor's lifelong achievements, and often only the founding monarch and the lord of Zhongxing can enjoy this honor, such as Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, etc.

People are not saints and sages, who can have no desires, regardless of the front of the body, should take care of the behind. In order to strive for such an eternal honor, there is no shortage of emperors in history who have made any troubles, and the most famous of them is Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to be able to enjoy the worship of his descendants in the Taimiao forever after his death, Li Shimin can be said to have exhausted his thoughts, and there is no need to discuss the process in detail, and in the end he still fulfilled his wish. However, Li Longji, one of his descendants, was as fierce as a tiger in his operation, and in the end it only ended in embarrassment.

Of course, there is no shortage of lucky emperors in the past dynasties, that is, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, who was blessed by the high-spirited Dali Shengsheng of the Jiajing Emperor of the future generations, changed Taizong to Chengzu, and also enjoyed the honor of eternal glory.

But it turns out that the so-called eternal life is just an unrealistic dream. If you don't have a mystery, naturally someone will come to you.

Shen Zhezi, as the founding monarch of the Great Liang, was destined to enjoy the honor of the ancestor of the Immortals, but he had no worries about this. Because when I was worshipping in the temple, I couldn't help but be full of evil fun when I thought of these interesting things.

Of course, he didn't dare to expect that he would really be able to live forever, after all, what the result would be, it still depended on whether the descendants were wise or stupid. But no one has me, it is a thing to be happy about, and happiness comes from this.

Taimiao sacrifice, the time has entered dusk, His Majesty the Emperor hurriedly returned to the forbidden middle again, Xiao Zuo rested and waited for the ministers to assemble, and then went to Xuanren Town, leading the ministers to be the father Shen Chong on the title of Emperor Taishang.