Chapter 378 Go to Chang'an and report to King Su!
The death of Lingnan King Zhao Tuo was not a big deal for the Han court. After all, Lingnan was not only a vassal state, but also far away from the imperial court. However, Zhao Tuo's death made many people turn their attention to Zhaocheng again.
In particular, Zhao Tuo's coffin was transported to Zhaocheng, which was something countless people dreamed of but could not do.
And Duke Zhao, who seemed to have no sense of existence, once again made everyone recall him, and then sighed in their hearts: Duke Zhao, you are really able to live.
When the Luo State was destroyed in the past, Luo Ling was not far from coming of age. Then he stayed in Zhaocheng for more than ten years, went out to destroy Qin, and now he is over a hundred years old. He is the only person in the world who has seen Qin Zheng, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang.
It has come all the way from the era of various nations, and is like a living fossil. Coupled with various legends, one can't help but feel awe.
Liu Che was a little depressed in Changle Palace. He was an emperor who liked to make decisions arbitrarily, so Luo Ling's power naturally made him uncomfortable. But he was not a brainless dictator. He knew very well that he should not break up with a human god like Luo Ling. Moreover, Liu Che was now looking forward to one thing to happen, that is, whether Luo Ling, the living god, would die?
"Your Majesty, regarding the posthumous title of King Lingnan, this has been discussed by the court officials."
The attendant handed over a memorial, and Liu Che unfolded it and saw that one was "the one who conquered the land and annexed the country was called Huan, and the one who was strong and powerful was called Huan", and the other was "the one who defeated the enemies with strong will was called Zhuang, and the one who repeatedly conquered and killed people was called Zhuang". Both were posthumous titles that tended to be related to military achievements, and were praises for Zhao Tuo's expansion of the Xia Dynasty in Lingnan.
Zhao Tuo had always been respectful to the emperor of the Central Plains, and had never been short of tributes, so Liu Che had no objection to him. He simply drew a circle on the memorial and said, "He should be given the posthumous title of Huan. King Huan of Lingnan has worked hard and made great contributions. He is granted two nine gifts as burial objects to show the grace of the court and to inform the princes of all directions to devote themselves to the king's affairs."
The posthumous titles of marquises who have made great contributions to the founding of the country are all two-character titles beginning with "Wen" or "Wu". This is the only posthumous title that has regulations. The posthumous titles of other princes are either single-character or double-character. The posthumous titles of ministers who are not marquises who have made great contributions to the founding of the country are basically two-character posthumous titles. Generally, beautiful words are chosen, and there are no regulations.
The attendant took the memorial and asked, "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister asked that it is the annual day for reporting the posthumous title to the heaven. This year, many princes and ministers have passed away. The Prime Minister suggested reporting to the heaven in advance to avoid delaying the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heaven.
The Prime Minister said that this year there is a foreign monarch, the King of Lingnan, so we cannot offer sacrifices to the heavens in the imperial palace. We must offer sacrifices to the heavenly altar in the Suwang Mausoleum. After you confirm the time, the Prime Minister's Office needs to contact Zhaocheng in time, and they will send someone to take you to the Suwang Mausoleum."
According to the posthumous name system of the Han Dynasty, the posthumous name and temple name of the emperor were immediately announced to heaven after they were determined, but the posthumous names of kings, princes and ministers were collected together and announced once a year.
According to Luo, qualified posthumous titles would be presented to King Su, while unqualified ones would be rejected.
However, no one has seen a posthumous title being rejected so far. On the one hand, the current emperor and ministers have relatively high political ethics in this regard, and on the other hand, there is awe in their hearts. No one knows whether the person who evaluated the posthumous title will get into trouble if the posthumous title is rejected, so the evaluated posthumous title is basically acceptable.
Zhao Tuo was a vassal prince and was not part of the Han court system, so he had to go to the Suwang Mausoleum to report to God in the name of the emperor.
In order to posthumously confer the title of King Wen on Luo Xin, Liu Heng elevated Ji Zhao's status on earth to that of the Son of Heaven. Thus, the heaven was the heaven, the earth was the Son of Heaven, and the Suwang Mausoleum became the place where the Son of Heaven was crowned.
The Suwang Mausoleum is very large and can be entered from the outside. However, this is the ancestral tomb of the Luo family after all. Not only Suwang is buried there, but also Luo Wengong, Ji Lingjun, and most importantly, King Luo Wen are also buried there.
Even the emperor cannot enter the Luo family’s ancestral tomb at will!
Moreover, we must prevent people from mistakenly entering the real Su Wang Tomb, where Luo is needed to lead the way, otherwise they will be in danger of death.
Luo himself said that it was King Su who had set up a formation outside the mausoleum based on the Book of Changes. The entrance path would change at every moment, and only after calculation could one enter.
This explains why the First Emperor wanted to achieve immortality but was unable to enter the Su Wang Mausoleum. It also made the powerful people in Chang'an City even more awed by the Su Wang.
Liu Che was eager to see if there would be any punishment if he gave a very inappropriate posthumous title, but in the end, reason made him restrain himself.
He was an emperor who believed very much in matters of gods, witches and ghosts. He dared to fight the Huns with real swords and guns, but he was really unwilling to challenge the magic represented by the Luo family.
"Inform the Prime Minister to offer sacrifices to the Su King half a month in advance. A while ago, Mr. Dong presented a brilliant idea, unprecedented, and I want to announce it to the world."
As Liu Che's order was issued, the entire Chang'an court became busy. The various vassal kingdoms and marquisates began to prepare to go to the capital again. The Han law stipulated that the princes and marquises had to pay homage to the capital every year. If a prince dared to feign illness and not come, once discovered, he would be sentenced to death and the country would be abolished. The punishment was not light. However, when Liu Heng was in power before, he was more tolerant of people. If the princes were really sick, it was okay for them not to come.
Liu Che enforced this Han law most strictly. As a result, in the second year of his reign, a prince insisted on paying homage to the emperor despite being seriously ill, and finally died on the way. This made the court in Chang'an lose face and was criticized by people all over the world for a long time.
However, Liu Che was a person who didn't care about these ups and downs. He believed that it was impossible for the princes to fall ill when they came to pay homage. The probability of falling ill was very small. However, not paying homage would increase the centrifugal force between them and the court. There might even be ambitious people who pretended to be sick and plotted evil, which would be most disadvantageous to the world.
Therefore, we still insisted that the kings and princes pay homage on time, but we were a little more relaxed.
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Zhaocheng's team set out from Shandong again, and many marquises and even princes along the way joined Zhaocheng's team.
It is safer to go with Luo. Although the Han Dynasty is relatively stable now, there are still bandits, and one must also be on guard against being ambushed by enemies. Such incidents are not uncommon. With current technical means, there is basically no evidence.
Perhaps some people think that it is impossible for the princes and marquises to not even have guards?
But the question is, how many private soldiers can you bring?
There are two hundred princes who went to Chang'an to pay homage to the emperor. Each family brought five hundred people, which means one hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand private armies that are not under the jurisdiction of the court are the elite among the elite. How can the emperor sit still?
Therefore, the most they brought were less than a hundred people, and most of them were only dozens of people. Moreover, they dared to bring less than ten sets of armor, and they had to rely on the protection of the counties and states along the way.
But the Luo family is different. They are not cowards. No matter what the emperor thinks, safety is their first priority. There are many people in this world who love the Luo family, but there are also many who hate them. If they are not protected well, I really don’t know how they will die.
Therefore, the Luo family always traveled with three to five hundred brave warriors, each with three horses, fully equipped with swords, spears, bows and crossbows, and even armor on the carriages, ready to kill at any time if there was any change.
Naturally, all the families were willing to follow the Luo family, and traveling together could also help them maintain relationships. Normally, these people were stationed in their own fiefdoms and were generally not allowed to leave the county.
In particular, the princes were very happy to contact Che Hou and even form an in-law relationship with him.
Due to the system of mobile feudalism, although the princes were more honorable than the marquises in terms of title and had greater power including military and financial resources than the marquises, this honor was entirely dependent on their blood relationship with the emperor.
Once blood ties begin to become distant, the fall will be faster. Even if one is transformed into a noble, unless he leaves the family tree, as long as he is still a relative, the royal family will always be wary of him.
On the contrary, Marquis Che enjoyed the throne longer because he guarded the important place and was the sharpest sword of the royal family.
At least up to now, most of the marquisates of the founding heroes are still there, and they were not stripped of their titles and abolished their states in just two generations as happened in history.
The person sent by Zhaocheng was one of Luo Ling's sons, and he also brought Luo Wuji, who is still a little baby with incomplete memories.
But Luo Ling knew from the moment Luo Wuji was born that this was an extraordinary child, because the family foundation was trembling, and he also felt that the sleeping King Su had woken up specifically to pay attention to this child.
This situation could only make Luo Ling think of the Son of Destiny that King Su had once told him about. He knew that it would be good for King Su and the family to have the Son of Destiny serve as the head of the family.
From then on, Luo Ling decided that Luo Wuji would take over the position of head of the family in the future, and the title of Duke Zhao would be transferred from his line to Luo Zhongkan's line.
This may be difficult to imagine for other families, but it is nothing for the Luo family. The direct descendants have a spiritual connection and are truly as close as a family.
The Luo family, together with the princes and marquises, amounted to more than fifty families acting together. Their momentum was extremely huge, with three hundred brave warriors as the core and thousands of elite soldiers. The momentum was so great that it shocked the officials along the way, but no one said anything when they saw the fluttering flags.
Not to mention that this is normal behavior, even if it is abnormal, no one will say anything except those extremely strong officials. To offend a prince is a strong order, but to offend a group of people, you will probably disappear from the world before the matter is reported to the emperor.
Walking on the straight road built by the imperial court, which is one of the political legacies left by the Qin Dynasty, is of great significance to the communication of the world. Crossing the Yi and Luo Rivers, leaving the prosperous Luoyang, and then walking through the old Hangu Pass, which has been gradually abandoned, and completely entering the Qinchuan area, the Wei River Plain appears in front of everyone. Walking forward, the towering capital appears in front of everyone.
Chang'an.
One of the brightest pearls in the Han Dynasty's crown.
I haven't reported this to King Su yet, how ridiculous! I added the title to enhance the leader's reputation. That's all.
(End of this chapter)
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