Chapter 300 The Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven
"Everyone! Minister of Rites Xu Jingzong has submitted a memorial, please have a look." Wang Quan took a memorial submitted by Xu Jingzong and gave it to Li Chengqian.
Xu Jingzong was the Minister of Rites, in charge of rituals, sacrifices, and the laws of school tribute. In short, anything related to these was under his control.
Therefore, the matter submitted by Xu Jingzong must be related to the rituals of sacrifice.
Li Chengqian took the memorial submitted by Wang Quan and opened it to read.
Xu Jingzong wrote in his memorial: "The temple of the Lord of Hongnong should be destroyed and replaced. According to the old ritual, Han Prime Minister Wei Xuancheng suggested that the master should be buried. But the ancestral worship of all nations has its origins, and it is not acceptable to bury him all at once. Jin Doctor Fan Xuan wants to build a separate temple and place the Lord of Zhengxi in it."
"The burial of the master is quite reasonable, but there is no anecdote, so it is not enough to follow. Some people also say that the master of destruction is buried in the heavenly palace, where auspicious signs are hidden, which is not the intention. Now according to the measurement, there are still altars and shrines in addition to the ancestral temple, and it is appropriate to pray for it. The current temple system is different from the ancient one. There are separate rooms on the same base, with the west at the head."
"If it is in the west wing, it is still in a high position, and it can pray and offer sacrifices, and it has not stopped offering sacrifices, and the old rituals are followed, and the situation is really at peace. The temple of the Lord of Hongnong Prefecture is far away from the emperor's personal death. According to the old rules, the rituals should be destroyed. The ministers have discussed and moved the tablets of the gods and hidden them in the wing room. This is in accordance with the truth and the law."
The long speech said a lot of things, but in fact it only talked about one thing.
That is, after the death of the previous emperor, the main tablet of the previous emperor should be placed in the ancestral temple and receive offerings and sacrifices together with the ancestors.
This has to mention the issue of the sacrifices in the family temples of the emperor.
"The Book of Rites: The Royal System": The emperor has seven temples, the princes have five temples, the officials have three temples, the scholars have one temple, and the common people offer sacrifices in the bedroom.
The so-called Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven means that the emperor's family temple can worship four relatives, two ancestral temples and the ancestor.
The so-called four relatives are father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather. The two ancestral temples refer to the father and grandfather of the great-great-grandfather, as well as the ancestor of your family.
This is a way of worship that strictly follows the Zhaomu system.
Now that Li Er is dead, his main deity tablet must naturally be placed in the Taimiao to receive offerings in all seasons.
But the problem is that since it is the Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven, there are only seven main deities to be worshipped. As for the others, it is not that they have no chance to be worshipped, but that they are not treated as well as the seven of them.
There are already seven in the Taimiao, and there is no place for Li Er at all.
If you want to put the main deity tablet of Li Chengqian's father Li Er in, you must take one of the ancestors out and put it in the back room.
Therefore, Xu Jingzong submitted such a memorial to Li Chengqian, which clearly explained whose main deity tablet should be invited to the side room to give Li Erteng a place.
Gaozu Li Yuan was Li Chengqian's grandfather, so it was naturally impossible to invite him to the side room. The two above Gaozu were naturally not qualified to go to the side room.
The seven people enshrined in the Li Tang Taimiao were the emperor's grandfather Hongnong Fujun Li Er, Xuanjian Gong Li Xi, Yi Wang Li Tianci, Taizu Jing Emperor Li Hu, Shizu Yuan Emperor Li Bing, Gaozu Dawu Emperor Li Yuan, and the eldest grandson Empress Wen, a total of seven.
In other words, among these seven people, except for Hongnong Fujun Li Er, who was the most qualified and was invited to stay in the side room, the other six did not have this treatment.
In the end, after choosing and choosing, only this Hongnong Fujun was the most qualified.
Who made him stay away from Li Chengqian? Who else could he choose if not him?
At first, when Li Yuan died, when Li Er discussed the system of ancestral temples, he first considered worshipping the main tablet of Li Hong, King of Xiliang.
But the ministers thought that Li Hong's status was not high enough, so they suggested that Li Er should set his sights on Li Er.
As a result, Li Er actually agreed. Maybe in Li Er's eyes, Li Er was more capable than Li Hong, who was living in a corner.
Because Li Er was worshipped in the Taimiao, Taoism also rose with the tide and became the state religion of the Li Tang Dynasty.
Li Chengqian picked up the pen and drew a word "imperial" on Xu Jingzong's memorial, indicating that his proposal was passed.
Li Chengqian closed the memorial and handed it to Wang Quan, saying, "I have approved what the Minister of Rites Xu Jingzong has reported. He will personally preside over the matter and there must be no mistakes!"
"Yes!" Wang Quan accepted the order, took the memorial, called a eunuch, handed it to him, and asked him to hand it over to Xu Jingzong, and also conveyed Li Chengqian's intention to Xu Jingzong.
"Has the edict to promote Li Yu to the position of Minister of the Left been issued?" Li Chengqian asked as he lowered his head to review the memorial.
"It has been issued! Li Yu also submitted a memorial about Xie En. Do you want me to find it for everyone to review?" Wang Quan asked.
"No need!" Li Chengqian said.
It was the will of the previous emperor to make Li Yu the Minister of the Left. He just followed it. As for mentioning it, it was just a casual question. As for Xie En's memorial, it was not the same thing. What difference does it make whether you read it or not?
"Is there anything new at the research institute?" Li Chengqian asked.
"There has been a new breakthrough at the research institute, and the remaining difficulties are still being overcome." Wang Quan told the latest developments at the research institute.
"Oh!" Li Chengqian looked up and asked, "What kind of technology has been broken through?"
"It's the hybrid rice technology. Now we can grow drought-resistant rice, and the yield per mu is more than one stone more than before, nearly two stones." Wang Quan said.
"This is good news, what about the others? How is the development of firearms?" Li Chengqian asked.
"In the research of firearms, we have now developed a self-propelled musket, but there are still some defects in performance. The research institute is overcoming this difficulty."
"As for the artillery that everyone is talking about, it is still under high confidentiality." Wang Quan said.
"That is to say, they haven't developed artillery at all, and haven't even started researching it, right?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Yes?" Wang Quan told the truth.
"Send someone to the research institute and ask them to focus on researching self-generating muskets and develop finished products as soon as possible." Li Chengqian said.
"Yes!" Wang Quan took the order and called a trusted eunuch to pass on the message to the research institute.
"How is the research on explosives going?" After Wang Quan sent someone to the research institute, Li Chengqian continued to ask.
"In terms of explosives, the research institute has developed a lot of things, including mines buried in the ground that will explode once the enemy steps on them. They are small and exquisite. After being held in the hand and ignited, they can be thrown directly to kill the enemy's grenades, etc." Wang Quan reported.
Li Chengqian was still very satisfied with the progress of the research institute.
"Do you want to go to the research institute?" Wang Quan asked.
"No! I've been busy with state affairs lately, so I don't have time to go to the research institute. Oh, send someone to the research institute again and tell them not only to focus on technology research, but also to cultivate more scientific research talents. Only with talents can we better research and produce good things." Li Chengqian said.
"Yes, I'll send someone to do it now!" Wang Quan said.