The next day, according to the predetermined procedure, Liu Che led the civil and military officials and the queen Chen Ajiao to worship the ancestors and ancestors in the high temple.

By the way, the Han Dynasty of the first emperor was also lifted from Yangling to the high temple and sacrificed to the ancestors.

The Han followed the Qin system, and the Qin system followed part of the Zhou system.

As the so-called 'right Sheji and left Zongmiao', from the Zhou to the Han Dynasty, the status of the ancestors is higher than that of Sheji (heaven and earth).

Therefore, the Han family has been in the Han family for more than 50 years, even if you count the brothers of the young emperor, there are only five sons of heaven, but the activities of sacrificing heaven and earth before and after do not add up to more than ten fingers.

But ancestor worship is done every year.

Even, ancestor worship itself was an act used by the emperor of the Han dynasty to declare power, clarify the status of monarchs and ministers, and strengthen the control of courtiers, especially vassal states, liehous, and lords.

And the donation is the most important part of it.

The so-called drinking gold, drinking, as the name suggests, is wine, and it is a high-purity wine, in the Han Dynasty, it is often replaced by a wine sacrificed to the ancestors.

As for the gold, it is the gold that the princes and princes contributed to the emperor to help the sacrifice.

The Han law had strict regulations on the gold that the princes and princes provided to the Son of Heaven for sacrifices.

There was an unlucky prince in history who was deprived of his feud and title because of the amount of money he offered, so he was deprived of his feudal country and title for this crime, and he was swept to the end.

As for the later reign of Little Pig @, this provision was carried forward, and one hundred and six marquis titles were dismissed on the pretext of insufficient gold fineness or substandard weight.

Among them, there are many people who have been in a prominent position and have enjoyed the country for several generations.

In other words, before the piggy's bargaining event. The princes had already behaved in all sorts of ways, and it was not uncommon for the gold to not conform to the regulations, if it were not for this. Where does the little pig go to catch a hundred and six fat sheep to slaughter?

In fact, this is also true.

Liu Che looked at the golden cakes that were now all in front of him, grabbed one and weighed it casually. I know that someone is playing tricks.

In the Han Dynasty, there were strict regulations on the weight of the gold cake made of gold.

When it comes to gold, it must be a catty (Han jin, about 225 grams - 250 grams or so).

But now this golden cake has obviously been manipulated.

Its actual weight may be less than ninety percent of the normal gold cake, as for the color? It still looked yellow, orange and orange, but after Liu Che picked up the scissors and cut a small piece, he found that the gold was still mixed with a lot of impurities.

"Your Majesty, the concubine of the liehou to assist in the sacrifice. As far as the minister knows, since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, he often has to actually only pay eighty percent of the money, and sometimes even only seventy percent......" Wang Dao explained beside him.

"Really?" Liu Che laughed.

The roots are here!

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was erected by the princes and ministers.

In other words, after Emperor Taizong Xiaowen ascended the throne, imperial power was not so deterrent in the eyes of some people.

Although later Emperor Taizong Xiaowen made a big comeback and regained power from the hands of the patriarchs.

However, in order to seize power, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen inevitably had to make concessions to the princes and princes.

The princes of the southern vassal states began to decay and degenerate. This is the inevitable result.

Liu Che knew that he couldn't be silent on this matter.

Silence will make people think that they are weak and can be bullied, and then they will be long.

The officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty was open and open, and the fire consumption and votes were confiscated. In the early and middle Ming Dynasty, there may have been zài, but that was absolutely unsightly!

Why did the end of the Ming Dynasty appear in the sun in a fair and honest manner?

It has even become a well-known rule?

Isn't it that the old Zhu family after Jiajing is softer than the other?

They have not dared to challenge the huge bureaucratic interests.

But bureaucratic interests are pressing on step by step. step by step, the Zhu family was forced into the end of destruction.

Liu Chezi also knows this.

But he is not the little pig when Piggy made the money incident.

Liu Che knew very well that the little pig could strike one hundred and six marquis in one go. That's because at that time, Wei Qinghuo's twins under Xiaozhuo were shining, and the old princes had almost no say in the army - even Li Guang, Cheng Buzhi, and Han Anguo, who are now considered young and strong, had been eclipsed by the light of Wei Qinghuo's illness. even became a passer-by.

The combined strength of the princes is not as strong as a finger of the little pig.

Therefore, the little pig can kill and take away the princes, saying that if you want to get out, you have to get out!

And now, the strength that Liu Che can really rely on is only a tiger guard around him, and other military forces are not so reliable.

"It can only be a killer of chickens and monkeys......" Liu Che sighed in his heart, since the sixth year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's Zhongyuan, the Han family has not used the gold clause to punish the princes for more than ten years, it seems that the princes probably forgot that the gold sacrifice is less, and it is going to kill people!

"Let's check it out and see which of the princes has the most unruly money and a shallow foundation?" Liu Che ordered.

Wang Dao didn't even move, so he lowered his head and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, you don't need to check, Zhuangwu Hou is!" ”

"Song Chang......" Liu Che sighed leisurely, and could only say that if he didn't die, he wouldn't die!

Zhuangwu Hou Song Chang, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's minister from the dragon, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen Emperor Xinhai in April of the first year, 1,400 households.

This person was a romantic figure of the previous generation in the early stage of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, at that time, it was the Huang Hou, the Zhuang Wu Hou and the current Zhang Wu Hou, which were the three major cadres under Emperor Taizong.

These people made extensive contacts with the ministers and were good at dancing with long sleeves, so that Emperor Taizong Xiaowen could quickly defeat the forces of the old ministers led by Zhou Bo.

But Song Chang is a typical person who gets carried away with pride.

Pampered and arrogant, arrogant and arrogant are not enough to describe this person.

So his decline is logical.

After the first year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Song Chang had de facto withdrawn from politics and was thrown into idleness.

Moreover, Song Chang's depravity was faster than anyone could have imagined.

Liu Che still remembers that after he was reborn, he once saw Song Chang's carriage in front of Bo Hou's dormitory, at that time, Song Chang went to Bo Hou to ask for money, Liu Che always remembered the original picture.

"That's it!" Liu Che waved his hand and ordered: "Go and let the Imperial Historian Yamen prepare for impeachment, the princes of 1,400 households must still have some gold at home......

In the history of mankind, there will never be a shortage of gold!

Especially for Liu Che, it is his established national policy to collect as much gold as possible, accumulate gold, and make reserves for the future gold standard.

And the princes' discretion is the cornerstone of his policy!

Just the gold in front of him, roughly estimated, should be able to be cast into about 3,000 gold cakes, which is roughly equivalent to more than half a ton of gold in later generations.

With such a huge amount of stable gold source, how could Liu Che be allowed to be floated away?

Therefore, he had to let Song Chang die.

Anyway, Liu Che remembered that Song Chang's goods, in the original history, had come to play to his own death.

In the previous life, it was this year that Song Chang was completely removed from the Han family. (To be continued......)

ps: Today's wife's birthday, I wish my wife a happy birthday~R1292