Chapter 863 0858 [History of Song Dynasty]

Not only has Luoyang turned into a large construction site, but all parts of the country have entered the construction period.

The biggest project is of course the management of the Yellow River!

Since the Yellow River water conservancy project cost too much money and food, the imperial court really did not have the financial resources to carry out other large-scale projects at the same time. Therefore, local governments were encouraged to develop their own water conservancy projects, and the government and the private sector worked together to build them. However, local powerful people were not allowed to take the opportunity to occupy water conservancy facilities.

In addition, the inn and delivery system were officially integrated into one this year to facilitate unified management by the court.

Some places have streamlined personnel, and some places have added post stations.

He also reiterated that officials at all levels are not allowed to eat and drink for free at the post station. Those who only bring special documents will have this treatment - such as scholars rushing to take exams, delivering important documents, etc.

"Your Majesty, the fourth edition of "History of the Song Dynasty" has been completed." Huan Guo came with his historian to present the book.

Ju Ming asked: "What additions, deletions and changes are there this time?"

Huan Guo said: "Mainly with the help of Liao and Jin historical materials, we compared and corrected some names of people, places and times. Now only the temple name and posthumous name of the faint emperor Zhao Ji are left. There is also the former emperor Zhao Huan of the late Song Dynasty. Not only did he not die, he is still alive. When he became an official in the new dynasty, the historian didn’t know what to call him.”

The reason why Zhao Ji's temple name and posthumous title have not been determined is because this guy can never be seen alive or dead.

Now that "History of the Song Dynasty" is about to be finalized, one must be given.

Zhu Ming began to browse the temple names and posthumous titles presented by the Ministry of Rites, then drew a circle and added a few words with his pen: "Just give this to Zhao Ji."

Huan Guo took it with both hands and took a look. He couldn't help but laugh and bowed: "Your Majesty is wise!"

The complete form of Zhao Ji's temple name and posthumous title in history is: Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, body, spirit, Tao, Jun, martyr, merit, saint, literature, benevolence, virtue, constitution, kindness and filial piety.

Zhu Ming made it much simpler for Zhao Ji - the leader of Yuqing, Xizong of Song Dynasty, was Miao Taojun and presented himself to the emperor.

He likes to have fun and have fun, which is also "Xi". He who made mistakes during his lifetime is also "Xi", which is very consistent with Zhao Ji's inherent personality.

As for "Yuqing Cult Leader Weiwei Taojun Emperor", this title was self-proclaimed by Zhao Ji when he was practicing Taoism. Ju Ming decided to respect the king's original intention and added the word "dedication" to him.

"Xian" itself is an excellent posthumous title, which represents both virtue and wisdom.

It's just that after Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, no emperor used it. Zhu Ming felt that Zhao Ji deserved this posthumous title.

Huan Guo didn't bother to remind him that the posthumous title was used incorrectly. Firstly, there was no need to go against the emperor's wishes. Secondly, the emperor's posthumous title had been messed up since the Tang Dynasty.

Take the three generations of Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi as an example.

Li Shimin was originally given the posthumous title "Emperor Wen", but Li Zhi felt that it could not highlight his father's awesomeness. After changing the title, he found that his father and his grandfather had conflicting titles, so he simply changed the posthumous title of his grandfather as well.

So there are three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, namely: Emperor Shenyao, Emperor Wenwu, and Emperor Tianhuang.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty respected tradition more and felt that this thing was too childish, so he added a few other adjectives.

In the Song Dynasty, the posthumous titles of emperors were no longer messed up, but temple titles were used in various ways, which provided a model for later generations of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

With the Tang and Song dynasties messing around, Ju Ming could do whatever he wanted!

Huan Guo asked: "Please tell me, what should I call Zhao Huan?"

Zhu Ming thought for a moment and said, "Let's call him Emperor Mo of Song Dynasty. He is still alive, so there is no need to give him a temple name or a posthumous title."

"According to the order!"

Huan Guo asked again: "The existence of the Jin Kingdom was too short. Should its history books be compiled separately? After the national histories of the Liao and Jin dynasties are compiled, should they be called "History of Liao" and "History of Jin", or should they be called "Liao Shu", Where is the "Golden Book"?

This is really a problem!

According to the practice since the Han and Tang dynasties, general history books are called "History" and dynasty history books are called "Shu".

To put it more informally, a book that covers several dynasties is called a "History of So-and-So", and a book that writes about a single dynasty is called a Book of So-and-So.

The "History of Song", which records the history of Zhao and Song Dynasties, should be called "Song Book".

However, there was already a "Song Book" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and no matter how I named it now, it was inappropriate. I could only break the tradition of compiling history and change it to "Song History".

Zhao and Song had already broken the tradition. Should the history books of Liao and Jin be revised along with them?

Ju Ming thought carefully for a while and said: "It doesn't matter how the history was compiled in the past. From now on, the orthodox dynasty will be called the history, and the Pian'an court will be called the book. The Jin Kingdom lasted too short, and its capital was far away from the border. It can be regarded as the Pian'an regime. "

"The history books of various countries compiled by our Ming Dynasty are named "History of Song Dynasty", "History of Liao Dynasty", "Book of Jin", "Book of Xixia", "Book of Gaoli", "Book of Dali", "Book of Annan", "Book of Gaochang" "..."

Huan Guo bowed solemnly, with a very serious expression, because he was establishing orthodoxy.

That is to say, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, only the Song and Liao Dynasties were recognized as orthodox, and the rest were all partial and peaceful regimes.

Chen Ao, the living man, suddenly shook his hand holding the pen, and his focus was obviously different.

The emperor has decided to wipe out all the countries!

Chen Ao was a little excited. Young people, who doesn’t dream about the prosperous times of Han and Tang Dynasties?

Huan Guo pretended not to hear anything and bowed silently before retreating. He majored in the knowledge of "Spring and Autumn", and he was still in Dong Zhongshu's way, originally supporting the emperor to wipe out the countries.

After Huan Guo left, Ju Ming asked Chen Ao: "After you marry the princess, will you stay in the capital and become the Prince Consort, or will you be sent out to become a local official?"

Chen Ao was overjoyed when he heard this: "Guan family, can the Ming Dynasty's prince-in-law be released?"

"If you can't become a high official, you can at most be promoted to prefect. If you don't want to be an official, you can come back and become the Prince Consort," Ju Ming said.

As a Jinshi, Chen Ao actually didn't want to be a prince-in-law.

But Zhu Guoxiang was attracted to him, and it was really hard to disobey the emperor's order. At the same time, Zhu Guoxiang promised to cancel the "guest ban", so Chen Ao was willing to marry the princess.

The so-called guest ban in the Song Dynasty meant that the princess and the prince consort could not make friends with ministers at will. If you drink with a certain official, you must report in advance. The prince consort Wang Shen was demoted because of his friendship with Su Shi.

However, there were often exceptions to the restrictions on the prince consorts in the Song Dynasty.

For example, the prince consort Chai Zongqing went to work as a judge in Jizhou. Song Renzong was wary of this, so he sent another person to "assist".

Even in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, there were several prince consorts who could lead troops.

The final right of interpretation was with the emperor.

Chen Ao bowed and said, "I am willing to be sent out!"

"Then give you a position as a county magistrate in Jinji." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

Jinji, at this time, specifically refers to the thirteen counties of Luoyang Prefecture.

Agreeing to send the son-in-law to be a local official was to appease Chen Ao, after all, it was not easy to pass the imperial examination.

But he must not be sent too far away, firstly to prevent the son-in-law from doing evil, and secondly to facilitate the princess to return to Beijing to visit relatives at any time.

Chen Ao was now desperate. He decided to be a civil servant for a few years and get a taste of local governance.

Then he returned to Beijing to serve as the son-in-law of the emperor. According to the rules, he would be promoted to the rank of Duke slowly. If he lived a long life, he might be promoted to the rank of Duke. The descendants of the Duke of the State would have a faster decline in the rank, and would become commoners after three or four generations. Unless the descendants can make meritorious contributions and rise again by their own ability.

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In midsummer, the Shu Kingdom Princess Zhu Yan got married.

The emperor, who had always been frugal, paid for a grand banquet from the royal treasury. He also asked his son to give the officials half a day off, so that they would not get drunk and could not get up the next day.

Zhu Yan had seen Chen Ao and had contacted him privately.

Her first impression was that Chen Ao was very handsome, and then she found that he was very interesting to talk to. So they played a few more rounds of polo together, and felt that this man had a good temper, so she finally told her father that she could get married.

On the day of her wedding, she cried a lot.

The next day, she was so happy that she didn't want to leave. She had the final say in the huge princess mansion, and she could go anywhere to have fun.

The couple had a good relationship, and the couple traveled together, spending their honeymoon around the scenic spots in several counties around Luoyang.

It was not until autumn that Zhu Yan followed her husband to take up his post.

Chen Ao's post as an official in Yanshi County was only fifty miles away from the capital Luoyang. And it was right by the Luo River, and it only took one day to get to Beijing by boat, so Zhu Yan could go home to visit her relatives at any time.

"History of the Song Dynasty" was also printed in the autumn, and 500 copies were printed directly.

The royal family and the court collected five copies, and the provincial government offices also collected them, and the rest were entrusted to booksellers for sale.

In addition, the court opened up copyright, and private booksellers could print at will.

There was already copyright awareness in the Song Dynasty, and if the books they wrote or compiled were pirated, they could report to the authorities.

But most creators are too embarrassed to do so, and they are also happy to see their works spread widely.

The ones who really want to sue are booksellers, who occasionally organize people to compile some science and education or popular reading materials. For example, various elementary education and imperial examination books, as well as professional books for various industries, or drama scripts. It costs money to compile these books, and once they find that they are pirated by their peers, these booksellers will angrily report to the authorities.

A set of "History of Song" was sent to the government office of Huzhou Prefecture for collection. Zhao Huan got the news and immediately ran to the prefect to borrow it.

The prefect was also reading it. Seeing Zhao Huan coming to borrow a book, and borrowing "History of Song", he felt a little complicated.

"Please do as you please." The prefect left with a copy of "History of Song" and asked Zhao Huan to stay and read the book.

Zhao Huan directly looked for the "Benji" section and soon found the content about himself: "The last emperor of Song, whose taboo name is Huan, is the eldest son of Emperor Xizong..."

The description of Zhao Huan in this version of "History of Song" is different from that in another time and space.

Many people involved are here, so they know the specific situation!

It records in detail that Zhao Huan was suppressed during his time as the crown prince, which led to his upright but cowardly character. His main shortcomings are indecision, poor judgment of people, and a lot of incompetent and cunning people around him.

Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief after reading it, and then wanted to cry again, and he recalled many past events.

Then he read his father's chronicle, which was simply unbearable to look at.

The historian did not deliberately smear him, but wrote down the good things his father had done truthfully.

"Alas!"

Zhao Huan sighed, did not want to continue reading, and went back to the experimental field to do research.

This version of "History of Song" compiled by the Ming Dynasty tried to be objective and fair, and did not mix in the black material of unofficial history.

Even some of the praises (comments) in the chronicle part were written by Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming themselves.

Zhu Ming commented on Zhao Guangyi, and said that the candlelight and axe shadows in some unofficial history were purely conjectures. Given the legacy of the Five Dynasties at the time, if Zhao Guangyi did not succeed to the throne, the Zhao Song Dynasty might soon be gone.

Of course, Zhu Ming also complained about Zhao Guangyi's speeding behavior, but at the same time he affirmed Zhao Guangyi's achievements in civil administration.