Liu Che drove and took hundreds of civil and military officials, surrounded by the army, to the outside of the Taimiao.

The distance between Taimiao and Weiyang Palace is not far away.

In fact, throughout the early and middle period of the Han dynasty, the temples of the first emperors were displayed under the palace walls of Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace.

This is so that the emperor can always go to the ancestral temple, talk to the ancestors, obtain the authorization and power blessings of the ancestors, and thus rule the world.

For example, the Han Book records that in the early days of Emperor Xuan's accession to the throne, he often went to Emperor Zhao's Xiaozhao Temple, often stayed in the Xiaozhao Temple all night long, and knelt in front of Emperor Zhao's clothes.

The effect of this initiative is very clear.

Not only did the Huo family dare not do anything to it.

and won over many remnants of Emperor Zhao, including Zhang Anshi.

After Huo Guang's death, the descendants of the Huo family even planned and planned to launch a mutiny when Emperor Xuan stayed at Xiaozhao Temple at night, kidnap Emperor Xuan, and then depose him.

But this matter was understood by Emperor Xuan, the mutiny failed, and the Huo family was killed.

Since then, the Han family has determined the system of 'not entering the temple at night', but only 'entering until the light is clear'.

Emperor Xuan relied on the dead Emperor Zhao to stabilize his power and win over ministers and nobles.

But the funny thing is that as soon as Emperor Xuan died, his son Emperor Yuan gave the Fat Cow Pavilion, the only way for Emperor Zhao to go out on patrol, to the minister Zhang Yu as a mausoleum, and from then on, Emperor Zhao could only make a detour.

It can be seen from this that the emperors of the old Liu family.

I don't really respect my ancestors.

It's like the royal road that Liu Che is taking now.

It was built by Emperor Hui, in order to facilitate his own access to Weiyang Palace, he went to Changle Palace to ask for peace.

But the problem is that this road lies across Liu Bang's high temple.

For his own convenience, he can grab his father's clothes and go out on the road.

This was placed in the Zongzhou period when the ritual system was strict, and Emperor Hui could be drowned by the spittle of the people of the world.

But in the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven is the greatest, and the Son of Heaven has no mistakes (the master of man has no excesses).

Therefore, in order to maintain the glory and greatness of Emperor Hui, he can only trouble Liu Bang's clothes.

As a result, there was the original temple system.

Liu Bang's crown was sent to Changling in Weibei, and a temple was erected for Liu Bang in the local area to worship his crown.

By the way, the person who came up with the idea and the system was called Shusun Tong.

No matter how pure the Confucian giants are, no matter how much Sima Guang sighed in later generations, he had to admit his status as a pioneer of Confucianism.

As for Ma Qian of Taishi Company, he thinks that Shusun Tong is a 'Confucian'.

thinks that without Shusun Tong, the inheritance of Confucianism would have been cut off a long time ago!

Walking on this road in a car, Liu Che couldn't help but sigh: "Where is my uncle and grandson?" ”

Once, he did despise and disdain his uncle's private morality and personality.

But after becoming an emperor, especially after sitting in the world for four years.

Liu Che's concept has long since changed.

In this world, there is no need for so-called perfect saints, and there are no such characters.

Zhou Gong still has a day of fear and rumors.

And what about the others?

Especially in a school like Confucianism, if there is a so-called sage, it is very likely that a disaster will occur.

No matter what ideology or school, even religion or party.

Fundamentalists are enemies of humanity.

People or schools that cling to the old antiques of hundreds of years ago, are unwilling to open their eyes to the world, keep pace with the times, and conform to the needs of the development of the world and the times.

If it is not to kill himself, it will definitely kill the country and the nation that believe in him!

On the contrary, it is a person like Shusun Tong who can adapt to the situation, keep pace with the times, and change his thoughts and concepts according to needs and realities without scruples, who are the best school leaders.

The so-called straight is like a snake.

In short, in China, schools, ideas, and religions that cannot kneel down to the ruler and sing about conquest and cannot adapt to the needs of social development will definitely be taught to behave by the ruler's sword and gun.

While thinking like this, Liu Che's carriage arrived outside the gate of the Taimiao.

At this moment, near the Taimiao, the water that has been surrounded by the army is impassable.

Two or three thousand torches illuminated the whole world as day.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

The arrival of Liu Che's car immediately caused a tsunami of the army.

The cheers were so loud that even some villages outside Chang'an heard them.

"What happened to the Great Wall City?" Many people who did not know the truth got up from their beds, opened the door, and looked into the distance.

If it weren't for the Han family, there was a strict Luli system.

All residential areas will be closed as soon as it gets dark, and it is strictly forbidden to enter and exit.

Otherwise, the gossip party really has the urge to run under the palace wall and watch onlookers.

And this is also the reason why the children and grandchildren of Liu Li and Liu Fu chose to break into the Taimiao at night and cry before Pingming.

If it's broad daylight, let's not say whether you can get in.

Even if you go in, the end is constant - lose your head.

There is no one who knows his family's style better than the Liu family.

Back then, Emperor Gaozu was able to say to Xiang Yu: Please share a bowl with me, and he can push his wife and children out of the car and throw them to Xiang Yu without any scruples.

Future generations, even if they are inferior to their ancestors.

I will never be blackmailed by anyone.

And choosing to enter the Taimiao before Pingming minimizes the risk, and also leaves a way back for the Son of Heaven and himself.

As long as the matter can be resolved, after dawn, the imperial court can completely release news such as the Tianzi Night Shrine to block the mouths of the people of the world.

At most, at most, the folk gossip parties can have one more interesting anecdote to discuss and arrange.

At this moment, I heard the movement of the arrival of the Son of Heaven's car.

More than a dozen Yuan princes and grandsons in the main hall of the Taimiao Temple immediately crawled on the ground according to the plan, using all their strength, and cried loudly.

On the temple hall of the Taimiao, the candlelight is sufficient, enshrined on the high seat in the middle of the Taimiao, the Taishang Emperor's clothes supported by a wooden frame are empty, the wide sleeved robe, the dancing nine, no wind automatic.

It was as if the soul of the ancestor of the Liu family, who had been dead for decades, was returning from Jiuquan, looking down at his children and grandchildren.

Inside and outside the temple, dozens of armorers armed with halberds and axes, as if facing a great enemy, aimed their weapons at the heirs of the prince of Yuan in the middle of the temple.

These are the samurai who defend the temple.

They are basically the descendants of noble scholars.

In the Han family system, if you are a feudal monarch or above and 2,000 stones, you need to dedicate your sons and nephews to the ancestral temple for one to two years to complete your own obligations as a minister.

And they have undoubtedly been derelict tonight.

According to the system, just cutting off their heads is already a great grace!

Several temple officials and temple officials looked at all this with pale faces and soft bodies.

Although they were eager to give an order to the temple guards to kill all the thieves.

But they can't.

The ancestral temple is sacred and solemn.

Not to mention the blood gradually temple, that is, before entering the temple, there is no bathing and fasting, calming the mind and calming the mind, and removing internal and external filth.

It is also a great disrespect to the ancestral gods.

The temple is splashed with blood, and it is a blasphemy of the ancestors and ancestors.

It will make the spirits of the ancestors angry and refuse to accept blood food and incense.

Especially in the Han Dynasty, once such a situation happens, all the Taimiao staff and their families who are present or not present will all lose their heads.

…………………………………………

"Liu Dao!"

"Liu Deng!"

"Liu Gu!"

After Liu Che got out of the car, he shouted into the temple: "I have come here!" ”

"If you still have half the heart of a minister, the meaning of filial piety, and the virtue of half a Yuan king......" Liu Che said righteously: "Get out of the temple immediately, don't disturb the emperor!" ”

"Taimiao is a grass and a tree, if there is half a point of damage, you will be guilty of the sky, and the virtue of King Yuan and King Yi will be lost!"

Liu Che's words were clearly transmitted to the Taimiao.

After a while, there were three aristocratic men dressed in plain clothes and with filial piety all over their bodies, kneeling down step by step, and came to the gate of the Taimiao.

Thousands of weapons were aimed at the three men at once.

Bright swords, guns, swords, halberds, surrounded them.

At the slightest move, they can be cut into mashed flesh in no time.

Of course, such a situation will not happen.

Before and after the temple, no blood can be seen.

Seeing blood is tantamount to blaspheming the ancestral gods!

Even if the princes and ministers jointly punished the Lu clan back then, in the face of some of the Zhulu henchmen who fled into Gaomiao and Emperor Hui, they were helpless, and could only persuade and coerce them to surrender through siege and psychological offensive.

No one, not even the emperor, could afford the consequences of the blood spilled at the temple.

Of course, this is only for sure.

In times of chaos, there are no such scruples.

For example, when the two armies of the north and south were fighting for their main forces, it was very common for the high temple and the hui temple to shed three feet of blood.

"The unfilial son of the evil minister is not a filial son, ascending, solid, and bowing a hundred times, please see the Son of Heaven!" All three of them bowed calmly.

Now, for them, there is nothing else to think about, there is only one way - to meet the Son of Heaven and state their grievances and grievances.

In this way, if the Son of Heaven wants to save face, he will not kill them, and even appease them for the sake of face.

"Bring these sons of law to me......" Liu Che waved his hand and ordered, but his gaze had already moved in the direction of Changle Palace in the east.

This play, singing here, is almost over.

But there is still a last procedure missing - let the descendants of King Yuan cry out for grievances.

They shouted grievances, but of course Liu Che would not listen to them, nor would he agree.

However, this can exert strong pressure on the East Palace.

In this way, it can be ensured that, no matter what, whether Donggong wants to or not, from now on, he will no longer interfere in politics!

After the East Palace ceased to interfere in politics, the pavilion pottery became rootless water.

Although Liu Che still didn't dare to do anything to his mother-in-law.

However, it can cut off its authority, take its privileges, and tie its feet.

This is what Liu Che is bound to do.

Otherwise, he worked his side, and his cousins and Zhu Dou desperately dug up the foot of the wall and damaged the country to fatten themselves.

How does this make Liu Che refresh the rule of officials?

How to tell the civil and military officials that everyone must abide by the law and be honest and benefit the people?

Isn't that hilarious?

In essence, what Liu Che is targeting is actually the lobby group of court relatives and nobles headed by Guantao.

These guys have done a lot of evil for more than a decade, and have repeatedly interfered in and interfered in state affairs and the appointment and dismissal of officials.

Liu Che endured them until now, and he couldn't bear it anymore!

A moment later, the three brothers, Liu Dao, Liu Deng, and Liu Gu, were brought to Liu Che.

Liu Che knows all three brothers.

Liu Dao is Liu Li's eldest son, Liu Deng is Liu Fu's son, and Liu Gu is the middle son.

In the past, the relationship with Liu Che was okay, and he once went on a safari to Lin Yuan.

But at this moment, these three former clan siblings, like dogs, were weakly prostrate in front of Liu Che.

"Your Majesty......" As soon as the three brothers Liu Dao saw Liu Che, they immediately knelt down and paused on the ground: "The evil ministers are not filial and the sons are deeply sinful, and they have no shame to see Your Majesty again, but it is just a matter of ancestral incense inheritance, and the criminal ministers have no choice but to make this decision?" ”

"The ancestral temple, the weight of the world, the importance of the society, no matter what the reason, trespassing on the temple and disturbing the gods are not allowed in the world......" Liu Che said lightly: "Do you know?" ”

"The ministers know the ......" Liu Dao took off his crown and hat, and bowed prostrately: "Disturb the spirit of the emperor, the sins of the ministers are not forgiven, and not dying is not enough to thank the world!" ”

Before they decided to come, they already knew what would happen to them.

Needless to say, no one would tolerate someone who disturbed the ancestral gods.

The ancestors and gods were frightened, and the Son of Heaven also took off his hat to apologize, and he also had a prison to accuse the ancestors and the ancestors.

The Lord humiliates his ministers to death, and the person who puts the Son of Heaven in such a situation, no matter who he is, no matter how high or low his status, is a dead word.

But in the Han Dynasty, in the present.

For many scholars and nobles, personal life and death are not worth mentioning.

The continuation of the incense of the family and clan is the most important thing.

It is more important than life and honor.

If the family incense temple is cut off in the hands of a certain generation.

After the death of this person and his descendants, they must cover their faces with their hair, so as to show that they dare not see their ancestors and ancestors in Jiuquan.

Even, it is not possible to erect tombstones, enshrine in the temple, and accept offerings from descendants with the ancestors.

For the scholars and nobles at this time, this was a more cruel thing than death and more important than honor and disgrace.

In that year, Liuhou Zhang Budo conspired with his doctor to kill the internal history of Chu, and he deserved to die on the law, and was finally approved by Emperor Taizong to redeem his death, but he was deprived of all titles and abolished as Chengdan, and the Liuhou State was cut off.

Is this Emperor Taizong's mercy?

On the contrary, it is the greatest humiliation and the harshest punishment.

After Zhang Budo's death, his body was rolled up in a bamboo mat, and he dug a pit and buried it.

There is no sealed soil on its mound, its mausoleum has no burial, and its hair beard is covered.

Such a person, even if he goes under the Nine Springs after death, will be a lonely ghost.

No one knows about him, and no one will sacrifice him.

His ancestors and his descendants abandoned him.

His name will never be seen on the Shrine Tablet.

Compared to such an end, death is really not terrible at all, and it is even quite merciful.

In stark contrast is the Zhanhou Xiao He family.

At the beginning, Xiao He's grandson Xiao sat in the same country and abolished the country.

However, because Emperor Taizong allowed one of Xiao He's sons to choose a successor, he was renamed Zhuyang Hou.

Therefore, Xiao Tong's god card was introduced into the Xiao Family Temple, and even finally got a nickname.

When it came to Xiao He's fourth generation, there was a problem again.

The Zhuyang Hou Xiao Ze of that generation went to occupy the people's land as a dead man, and also committed adultery with people, but was arrested by Tingwei.

As a result, Zhuyang waited for a series of heirs.

But it doesn't matter, before the Wu Chu Rebellion, the first emperor chose an heir from Lao Xiao's family to inherit the incense.

In the foreseeable future, it is estimated that there will be countless more times for Xiao He's descendants to beat drums and pass flowers between their branches and compete with each other to the death.

However, as long as Liu Bang's son is still sitting on the throne, the Son of Heaven is still surnamed Liu.

The wealth of their family can be guaranteed.

However, there is only one Xiao He in this world, a famous minister of the Xinghan Dynasty who can be praised by Emperor Gao as 'the first meritorious service'.

Obviously, the status of these branches of the Yuan King is not as good as Xiao He.

For Liu Dao and others, they want to not fall into a tragic fate like Zhang Budo after death, so that they can't even be enshrined.

Then they can only use their blood to pave the way for future generations.

Even, they feel that their death is worth it.

And if someone is not even afraid of death, then there is probably nothing in this world that can make them afraid.

"Your Majesty Fu Wei's holy ruling: the guilty ministers and others are all the heirs of the prince of Yuan, the first emperor is in Japan, and he has personally sealed the imperial seal, and our father is enshrined in the Chu State to worship the temple of the Yuan Wangzong!" Liu Daogong bowed and said: "However, the first emperor collapsed early, Your Majesty accepted the heavens, assumed the throne, and entrusted the affairs of Chu and Zhao to the East Palace...... However, the East Palace is old, can't look at things, hesitates, belongs to the minister's father today, and loves the red waiter tomorrow......"

"Shut up!" Liu Che coldly interrupted them and said, "The Empress Dowager, can you also talk about it?" ”

"The Empress Dowager, bow to the virtue of Taizong, the order of Emperor Zuoxian, use it in me, the mother of the world, the majesty of Zhaoyao, the world feels its virtue and obeys its righteousness, the former Xia Kai's Xin, King Wen's Jiang Hou, but that's it!"

"How dare you talk about the Empress Dowager?" Liu Che said with a sad face: "I can spare you, and the world can't spare you!" ”

This is a face-to-face and superficial thing that must be done.

From ancient times to the present, Liu Che has never seen that there is such a wise ruler who will openly publicize his internal contradictions and interests to the world.

Only those **** and stupid fools will think that if the contradiction is made public, they will be able to take the initiative.

As everyone knows, the openness of contradictions will inevitably lead to a fierce power struggle.

Anything, before it is made public, even if each other has been dredged with water and fire, there is no one else, but it can still be covered, hidden, and buffered.

Once it is made public, it is equivalent to telling yourself and your opponent: Come on, let's fight to the death, either you die or I die!

Isn't this ****?

In particular, the relationship between the East Palace and the Weiyang Palace is sensitive and fragile.

This is why Liu Che has been putting up with Dou and Guantao digging the foot of the wall, and pretending to be generous.

He really knows.

For the emperor, it is not just a matter of being happy.

After that, you have to think about how to clean up the mess.

The problem of the East Palace exists objectively, but the problem of Dou's relatives and Pavilion Tao can be forbidden by other means.

Openness of contradictions will not help solve the problem, it will only make it worse.

In the history books, there is no shortage of tragedies with bloody drifting and corpses in the court.

"I order you and the others, as well as the heirs of the princes of Zhuyuan, to immediately leave the Taimiao and apologize for their sins before me!" Liu Che said sharply: "In this way, thinking of the virtue of King Yi of Yuan, I may still be lightly dismissed, otherwise, I will be guilty of heaven, and there is nothing to pray for!" (To be continued.) )