The village drinking ceremony is an ancient Chinese cultural tradition.

The earliest can be traced back to the Xia and Shang periods, but there are clear records and institutional rituals, the township drinking system began in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

"The Book of Rites: Township Drinking Righteousness" records: (Township Drinking Ceremony) Sixty people sit, and fifty people stand to listen to political service, so Ming respects the elders. Sixty three beans, seventy four beans, eighty five beans, ninety six beans, so Ming pension also.

The so-called beans here do not refer to beans, but a kind of utensils used to hold meat sauce and pickles in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the shape is similar to a high-foot plate, the middle part is disc-shaped, there is a handle under the plate, and there is a circle foot under the handle.

To put it simply, the village drinking ceremony may have been the original ritual of our ancestors to celebrate a year's harvest and reward a year's hard work.

By the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it became an important political ritual.

"The Book of Rites: The Royal System" is very clear - (Township Drinking Ceremony) Learn to shoot and learn.

It is also another chapter in the Book of Rites, "Di Guan", in the "Dang Zheng" chapter, which says in more detail: to belong to the people and drink in the order, and to correct the teeth.

To put it bluntly, the village drinking ceremony in the Zhou Dynasty was a kind of political etiquette used by the rulers to strengthen their dominance and maintain social order.

Just like the party school of the Celestial Dynasty in later generations, every year it is necessary to emphasize the study of the spirit of Comrade XX's speech, thoroughly implement the spirit of XX, and work hard for the XX goal, but in fact, most of the participants are just here......

However, times have changed, and etiquette has begun to change accordingly.

After experiencing the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, by the Qin Dynasty, the township drinking ceremony had become unrecognizable.

Qin, as a regime with a classical militarist system, hated factors that could lead to social instability.

Qin Lu is all-encompassing, and even ordinary people want to eat, sleep, drink and make friends!

For example, Qin Law stipulates: Those who drink in groups of more than three people without reason. A fine of four taels!

In such a situation, the village drinking ceremony of the Zhou Dynasty. During Qin's short reign, it was only done once. Even the vest has been changed, and it has become the so-called big drunk.

The so-called drunk, tongfu, and big drunk means that the king Bude ordered the officials and people to gather and eat together in the world.

In this way, the township drinking ceremony has completely changed from the previous folk behavior to the state's political activities.

Han Cheng Qin system, the so-called Han law is actually the Qin law changed the name of the wood specification and writing method of the record, and the others were basically exactly the same at the beginning.

Thus, actually. In the first ten years, during the reign of Liu Bang and Empress Lü, the private gathering and drinking of the people were extremely strictly controlled.

Even today, after Liu Che came to power, many places are still very sensitive to people's private gatherings, and they often dispatch county soldiers to arrest and punish them. Basically, just like the gambling and prostitution in the police stations in later generations, in the Han Dynasty, catching the common people and the small landlord class for drinking without permission is also one of the income-generating projects of most local governments.

Liu Che was the king of the river in his previous life. I know this situation very well.

What is the law that the common people hate the most?

This ban can be included in the top three at least!

Of course, the emperor of the Han dynasty is not one of those elm braincases of the Qin Dynasty, and he does not know how to be flexible.

There is the Qin generation. In total, there was only one big drink - it was still the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, the year when the Qin state unified the world, Qin Shi Huang ordered the people to be granted a large drink in order to celebrate the unification of the four seas.

Besides. Not once.

And the Han family, it is every Jiaqing.

For example, the emperor ascended the throne. Qianqiu, the queen, the prince, and the queen mother's birthday, will order the people to drink and celebrate with the king.

Now, in front of Liu Che, it is the edicts and decrees of these successive emperors who ordered the world to be drunk.

From these edicts and decrees hidden in the Shiqu Pavilion, it can be seen that the tradition of the Han family to realize the Great Drink originated in the year when Liu Che's imperial grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, ascended the throne.

Back then, the new emperor, who had changed from acting king to son of heaven, couldn't wait to start showing his voice on the political platform.

This 'big order' can be regarded as a model of the early political measures of this Son of Heaven.

Liu Che examined the edict written on the bamboo slips.

Nodding his head while watching, this is an extremely rare learning material for a new emperor like him.

After reading these edicts, Liu Che instructed Wang Dao: "Go, invite the prime minister and the imperial historian to enter the palace to discuss politics!" ”

The system realized by the Han dynasty was slightly different from that of later generations.

Later generations, especially the emperors of the Song and Ming dynasties, had to go to court almost every day, but the emperors of the Han dynasty did not have to do so.

Generally speaking, if there is no sudden major accident, it is a regular pilgrimage on five days, and a pilgrimage on the first day of the new moon.

The rest of the time, the emperor can make full use of it, whether it is to play in the mountains and rivers, or to play, no one will have an opinion.

Two days ago, the Standing Dynasty meeting was held, so today is not the last day, and the ministers are basically in the official office to handle government affairs.

"No!"

After Wang Dao received the order and left, Liu Che ordered someone to bring a piece of paper and drafted an edict on it, and while writing, he also read his grandfather's edict for reference.

Half an hour later, when Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo appeared in front of Liu Che, Liu Che almost figured out the content of the edict and preliminarily wrote out a plan.

"Majesty!" Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo bowed together, and then asked, "I don't know what kind of dispatch His Majesty sent to the palace to summon the ministers?" ”

Liu Che handed the blank paper in his hand to Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo, and said, "Two Aiqing take a look at the draft of this edict from me first!" ”

Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo respectfully knelt down and took the paper handed over, as the prime minister, Zhou Yafu read it first, and then handed it to Chao Cuo.

It took about a quarter of an hour for the two men to finish it.

Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo glanced at each other, and then both of them bowed and said: "Your Majesty advocates filial piety, the heart of a child, touching the heart, Chen Yafu and other Volvedons, thank you for the world!" ”

This edict, Liu Che is basically the product of a slight change in the edict of his grandfather.

No one can fault it.

Liu Che nodded and said with a smile: "My Han family has always ruled the world with filial piety, since the prime minister and the imperial historian are both good, then this edict is like this!" ”

"Someone!" Liu Che ordered: "Record the edict!" ”

Several Shangshu who had been standing on Liu Che's imperial steps hurriedly walked down the steps and prostrate on the ground. Kowtow and said: "The ministers are here, please show your majesty!" ”

"I've heard of it. The old man is not warm or full...... Today, I inherit the last order of the emperor. Won the Baozong Temple, so far more than half a year old, from time to time to make people ask the elders, without the gift of cloth, wine and meat, how will the descendants of the world filial piety to their relatives? Today, I heard that the officials should receive porridge, or Chen Su, how can it be called the meaning of providing for the elderly? It's all ordered! Liu Che had already finished the draft, and at this moment, he slowly said it, and the Shangshu in the audience hurriedly knelt with a knife and pen. Engrave this edict on bamboo slips.

The Han system, the emperor's edict or policy book, is in triplicate.

One copy was given to the prime minister and the imperial historian, one copy was kept in the archives of the Shiqu Pavilion as a record, and one copy was given to the edict recipient or the officials, nobles, and relevant departments who carried out the order.

Any edict, if any, is not filed in the Shiqu Pavilion.

So. Even if it's true, it's fake and doesn't have legitimacy.

It is the Han dynasty that has extremely strict requirements and systems for the custody and archiving of the emperor's edicts.

Basically, every edict is kept and reviewed by a special person after it is formulated.

Just in case. Every month, the Shangshu of Shangshutai will check the edicts in custody one by one according to the catalog.

Such a system ensured that no one could forge any imperial edicts.

Equally. In such a system, there could be no secret edict or anything like that in the Han family—even if there were. As long as there is no deputy edict for the record in Shiqu Pavilion, according to the system. Even if it's true, even if the emperor knows it, it's a fake.

In his previous life, Dou Ying died from an edict that had not been recorded......

But then again, Lao Liu's family used an edict that was not recorded, to fool the courtiers and even stab the courtiers with knives, and they were very skillful.

For example, Bo Zhao......

Who can prove that Bo Zhao was an edict in the first place? Or is there really an edict?

Anyway, everyone else is dead, and there is no proof of death!

The speed at which the scholars recorded the edict was relatively slow, after all, it was somewhat difficult to burn it in official script on the bamboo slips with a knife and pen.

Liu Che waited for a while, and when they finished writing, he continued: "There is a priest who asks for the county road: If you are more than eighty years old, you will be given one stone per month of rice, twenty catties of meat, five buckets of wine, more than ninety, and two ingots and three catties of silk people!" Those who give things and give rice will be read by the chiefs, and if they are captains, they are less than ninety, and they will be ordered to be judged! Two thousand stone officials followed, and those who were not worthy were supervised! The punishers and the guilty endure the above, do not need this order! ”

Liu Che's edict, in the Han Dynasty, is a correct order!

To rule the world with filial piety, from the emperor to Li Shu, everyone must lead by example and respect the elderly.

Especially in the last edict of Liu Che, he, the emperor, personally ordered the deployment, requiring tasks and orders to be issued from the central to the local level.

Warmth is given to the elderly over the age of 80 who are registered in all jurisdictions.

The weight of this warm gift bag is not light!

Each person is one stone of rice, twenty catties of meat, and five buckets of wine per month!

If the ninety-year-old is ninety-year-old, add two additional silk cloths and three catties of silk cloth as raw materials for warm clothing.

Such a reward is not insignificant!

Even if the boss of the Heavenly Dynasty in the future world sends warmth to the grassroots level, it's nothing more than that!

Never doubt the efficiency of the Han bureaucracy and their control over the grassroots regime.

Don't forget that the Han dynasty was established on the basis of the Qin dynasty, and the civil administrative institutions and units of the entire Han dynasty were basically copied from the Qin Dynasty system.

The Qin regime of the classical militarist system penetrated its tentacles into the administrative units at the level of the folk village as never before, and even directly to the head of the household himself.

The Han family is similar, under the policy of arranging households and people, no one can escape the control of the government.

As a result, the Han government was in fact able to engage in direct dialogue with the village level at the lowest level at the local level.

For example, Liu Bang and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen once personally summoned the grassroots administrators of the people: the three elders.

A basic number can show how strong the Han government's control over the people is!

Liu Che has a book in his hand of the statistics of the Prime Minister's Mansion on the population of the world, and one of them says: 'There are eleven six or seven hundred people over the age of ninety in the world, and two thousand eight hundred and twenty-three people over the age of seventy who receive the rod'

The single-digit accuracy of the cane recipients is enough to ensure that the Han Dynasty's administrative control ability can surpass that of all Chinese feudal dynasties except for the Qin Dynasty.

Because, these so-called 'rod recipients' are the three old groups in the history books.

These people are equivalent to the deputies of the Han people's congress, they do not worship the officials, they can enter and exit the official office, there is no need to be taboo when walking on the galloping road, the city is Jia Shi, there is no need to pay any taxes and fees, in the Han family, the only person who can compare the privileges with this group of people except for the liehou class is the old Shandong brothers who followed Liu Bang to fight the world and settled in Guanzhong.

To this day, the princes are half dead, and the old brothers in Shandong who followed Liu Bang into Conglong are also dead and sick.

In politics, these three elders became the backbone of the Han regime.

Because these rod recipients all have a common characteristic.

According to the law set by Liu Bang, if you want to be the third elder and enjoy the privileges of the imperial court, you must meet one condition, which is 'more than fifty years old, have practice, and be able to lead the people to do good'.

In feudal society, this condition actually limits the selection of the three old men to be the patriarch of the local clan or a local celebrity who is more powerful than the patriarch.

Such people basically have a certain cultural foundation, are familiar with social reality, and are either officers who have served as soldiers, fought wars, and made meritorious contributions, or have been officials, and have served as officials who have served as officials with a real position of at least 800 stones.

They are not officials, but they belong to the bureaucracy!

Therefore, in a sense, the current Han family, in fact, is still the militarist government of the Qin Dynasty in its bones, but it is mild and obscure.

But changing the soup does not change the medicine.

Historically, it was not until after Zhaoxuan that the Han dynasty slowly became the regime with Confucianism as the core, and after the Yuan Dynasty, it degenerated into a community of bureaucrats and landlords.

Knowing this, you can understand the intention of Liu Che's edict.

As Jia Shan said back then: The respect of the Son of Heaven, within the four seas, is not a minister. However, the three elders are raised in the university, the sauce is fed, the deacon is drunk, the wish is in the front, the wish is in the back, the secretary is in the staff, the doctor is in the shoes, the virtuous are self-assisted, and the people who seek correction make direct advice. Therefore, with the respect of the Son of Heaven, respect the three elders, and regard filial piety!

To put it simply, if you want to rule steadily, you have to buy these three elders, make them fight for the interests of the Liu family, praise them, and give them corresponding treatment, so that the world will be peaceful!

And the Liu family has always done this.

Of course, the three-old system is not without its flaws.

At least Liu Che knew that the hotbed of the family gate valve system after Zhaoxuan was the three-old system.

However, for the time being, there is no other political force or person that can replace the Three Elders.

Moreover, Liu Che doesn't think that after the examination, there will be any gate valve family!

As long as the examination is not wasted, the rising channel at the bottom has always existed.

A family of gate valves?

Hehe, it is estimated that he will be beaten into a dog by the literati!

How strong the fighting power of the literati class of the Song and Ming dynasties was, everyone who has read history will not be mistaken!

These guys, but even the emperor sprays the same thing, and the prime minister scolds and plays with the invincible group of mouth cannons! (To be continued......)

PS: My body is much better~~~~ I should be able to fulfill the promise I made a few days ago tomorrow~ Damn, ~~~~~~~~