Chapter 1276 Civil and Military Saint Emperor
The political affairs of the day are finally over.
Qin Lang stretched his waist, feeling exhausted. He has always been impatient to sit around and do chores, but under the current circumstances, he, the chief assistant, has nothing to do. After all, it is very time.
"Go to Qianyang Palace!"
It is convenient to go to Qianyang Hall for staying in the palace for introspection.
In front of Zhongshu's Ineixing gate, there are guards guarding it. When Qin Lang goes out, a Zhonglang will personally lead the guards and guards, and there will be servants leading the way.
"Brother!"
Among the several Zhonglang generals on duty today, one is none other than Qin Xun, the Duke of Qi. He is wearing full armor and seems a bit overwhelmed.
Qin Lang looked at this brother and nodded.
Cui Shi always hoped that Qin Wulang could take the road of civil service, but Qin Xun's literary talents were average, and he also participated in the imperial examination, but failed several times. Although it is also possible to arrange a civil job for him based on his family background, he will not have any serious ministry.
Besides, I am young, so I have been staying in the Imperial Army for all these years to get seniority, and I have been promoted to the rank of General Zhonglang one by one. Previously, even this General Zhonglang was only a nominal name, and he did not actually preside over the affairs of General Zhonglang's mansion. From this year onwards, he began to be responsible for some things.
Qin Lang knew that this brother was not really qualified to be a general. It is said that Qin Xun hadn't made much progress in the past few years after Qin Qiong's death. It is indeed comfortable to be the Duke of Xiaoyao.
Fortunately, when Qin Qiong was here, his family education was stricter, so he didn't become a dude. On the contrary, because he was so arty and made friends with scholars, he earned the nickname Xiao Mengchang among the scholars and scholars in the capital.
Usually spending money everywhere to treat guests, not only often entertaining celebrities and talented scholars, but also sponsoring those poor scholars and down-and-out scholars, so it can be regarded as a small reputation, which is quite positive.
"Since I came back to Luoyang, I have been busy with court affairs. I am on duty in the palace. I have never been out of the palace. I haven't been able to visit the eldest lady. Is everything okay at home?"
When Qin Xun faced this elder brother, he was always a little nervous and restrained. Although he was usually in Luoyang, he was also a generous master who spent a lot of money, and everyone praised him, but facing Qin Lang, he was still under a lot of pressure.
Honestly speaking, everything is fine at home.
"Be on duty well. After the national funeral is over, I have to go home to visit the eldest lady when I have some free time. Are my nephews and nieces okay?"
"fine."
The fifth wife married the eldest grandson Wuji's daughter, and took the daughter of his uncle Cui Dunli as his concubine. Cui also took great pains with this son, not only taking his brother's daughter as his concubine, but also taking the daughter of his brother as his concubine. The Zheng family in Xingyang, the Cui family in Qinghe, the Lu family in Fanyang, the Li family in Zhaojun, the Wang family in Taiyuan, and the Li family in Longxi all took a woman as their concubine.
Although the few families who paid millions of dollars in gifts were actually concubine daughters from side branches, and some of them were born to maidservants, they still bear the name of women with five surnames after all.
Cui Shi seems to have this kind of stamp collecting hobby of famous women. She collects all the daughters of five surnames and seven clans for her son. And Qin Xun was not good at reading, nor at martial arts.
But after all, he is the son of King Zhongwu of Qin Qi. He not only inherited the titles of Lord Qi and Shangzhu, but also inherited tens of millions of family fortunes. His elder brother and uncle are both prime ministers of the court. Of course, each family is willing to give a share. In order to save face, it is not a loss to marry a concubine daughter from a small branch of the sect.
What's more, the Cui family also knows how to be a man. Here, one of the five surnames and seven sects will be married to the son, and the other will be married to the Qin family.
Qin Xun is twenty-seven years old this year. Li Shimin has already become the emperor at his age, but Qin Xun's greatest achievement at this age is actually having one wife and thirteen concubines, who gave birth to eleven sons and thirteen daughters. Not weaker than his elder brother Qin Lang.
He seems to be focusing his energy on having children.
Qin Lang is quite satisfied with this matter, and feels that a family member Ding Xingwang is also very important. I heard that the Cui family is very careful in educating these sons and daughters of Qin Xun, especially the son. Even personally responsible for teaching, it seems that her son's failure to become a talent made her pin her hopes on the next generation.
On the way, the two brothers had a brief chat. Being in the palace, there wasn’t much to talk about, as long as they knew everything was fine at home.
"Be on duty."
In front of the hall, Qin Lang patted his brother on the shoulder, and then followed the servants into the hall.
In the hall, Li Shimin's coffin still stops here, and it will be transported to Zhaoling in Chang'an after July 7th.
Chengqian dressed in sackcloth and sat there on his knees, looking very filial.
"Your Majesty, the ministers and others discussed, to be the Daxing Emperor posthumously Emperor Wen, and the temple name is Taizong."
Chengqian thought for a while, "The first emperor created a prosperous age, which was an unprecedented civil governance. Then the first emperor personally carried a sword and rode a horse to unify the world and conquer the world. Just one word is not enough to reflect the late emperor's martial arts and martial arts."
Li Yuan's temple name was Gaozu, and he was posthumously Emperor Taiwu.
Li Shimin is capable of writing and martial arts, but Li Yuan is already the emperor of Taiwu.
"Not enough, Grand Master, Emperor Wen is not enough."
Qin Lang also knew that although Chengqian didn't really respect his father much before Li Shimin was alive, but now that Li Shimin is dead, it is only good for him to exalt Li Shimin infinitely. The more, the more Chengqian inherited.
Qin Lang understood.
"The minister thought that he could pursue the posthumous title of Emperor Gaozu."
"Oh, tell me."
"I would like to add the posthumous posthumous title of Emperor Gaozu God Yaoxiao."
If you want to elevate Li Shimin, first elevate Li Yuan.
"Where is the former emperor?"
"Civil and martial emperor!"
Generally, the emperor's posthumous title is one or two characters, such as Emperor Wen and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Li Yuan originally agreed to be Emperor Wu, but Li Shimin felt sorry for his father, so he asked for more honor, and finally decided to be Emperor Taiwu.
But now Li Chengqian feels that two words are not enough to reflect his admiration for his father. Of course, Qin Lang can also solve the problem, because he just wants a better posthumous title, just to lengthen it. Later generations know that if you rent a wedding car, you have to rent an extended Lincoln or something.
Add three words directly.
Sure enough, as soon as Qin Lang made this proposal, Cheng Qian was very satisfied.
However, he was a little dissatisfied with giving Li Shimin the temple title Taizong. He felt that Li Shimin's contribution to the Tang Dynasty could be called an ancestor.
Because Confucius also said that ancestors have merit and ancestors have virtue, merit is the merit of creation, and virtue is the virtue of keeping success.
And Li Shimin is not only a successful king, he is the king who conquered the world for the Tang Dynasty. Today, the tens of thousands of miles of the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity and peace, are all created by Li Shimin.
In history, it should be the Han Dynasty that really started to use temple names. Before that, it is said that only the Shang Dynasty 800 years ago used them.
Therefore, Liu Bang is considered to be the first person known by later generations to have a temple name. Liu Bang's temple name is Taizu, and his posthumous title is Gao, which is called Emperor Taizu Gao. However, many people directly use his posthumous title to call Liu Bang Han Gaozu. It's just a posthumous title, such as Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen was a posthumous title, and the temple name was Sui Gaozu.
The so-called seven temples of the son of heaven, worship seven ancestors, the so-called temple of one ancestor, two ancestors and four relatives.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of Wude, Li Yuan established the Taimiao of the Tang Dynasty, enshrining his father's ancestor Yuan Emperor Li Zan, ancestor Taizu Emperor Jing Li Hu, great-grandfather Li Tianxi, and Gaozu Li Xi into the ancestral temple, and only established the four-generation relative temple.
Li Yuan established four temples not because his ancestors were humble and unknown, but following the five temple model of "one Taizu and four relatives temple" in the Northern Dynasties. This pattern of five temples (there are actually four temples) was not broken until the death of Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan.
In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan passed away. Qin Lang proposed to build seven temples. The reason was that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty only set up the temple for the fourth generation. What is the difference between this and the princes? momentum.
Cen Wenwen, Zhu Zishe and others also suggested referring to the old rules of the Jin and Song Dynasties to establish a temple of six relatives. Therefore, Li Shimin adopted the suggestion of his courtiers and built a new Taimiao. .
In this way, it became the seven temples of Tang Taimiao, and there are actually six temples.
The order is Li Chonger, Lord of Hongnong Mansion, Li Xi, Duke of Xuanjian, Li Tianxi, King Yi, Li Hu, Emperor Jing, Li Zan, Emperor Yuan, and Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu.
However, during the Zhenguan period, there was always a problem that troubled Li Shimin, that is, who should be respected as the ancestor.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Hao, the founder of Xiliang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, was attached to Li Hao, the founder of Xiliang, just to elevate the status of the royal family, so as to avoid people talking about their old Li family's low birth, not having a long history and noble blood to show off.
Therefore, Taizong wanted to make Li Hao the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty. This idea was supported by Fang Xuanling and others, but Yu Zhining opposed it.
Yu Zhining believed that Xiliang had a very short period of time from founding to its demise, and there was nothing to show off. There was no need for Tang Shengye to take Danwan Xiliang as its ancestor. Besides, since the Han Dynasty, everyone has been based on the founding emperor or recent ancestors (Zhao Ji's ancestor) as the ancestor, our Tang Dynasty wants to establish an ancestor who is so far away and can't reach it?
The ancestor controversy can only be temporarily shelved.
Now Li Shimin has also collapsed. According to the previous system, there were seven temples in the Great Tang Taimiao, but six temples. Now all six places are full, and one must move out if one enters.
Li Shimin goes in, who will come out?
Chengqian asked Qin Lang this question.
"The minister thought that the first emperor was the great ancestor, and he would not move for a hundred generations. Like Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, when he was appointed, he took the great ancestor as the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty; Emperor Wen Yu Wentai was the ancestor, and Emperor Wuyuan Yang Zhong was the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty. They were both the first emperors. Our Emperor Jing of the Tang Dynasty was the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty. King Wu Zhao's achievements were not extensive, and the queen lost his country.
Today, it is about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the admiration of Xiliang, the ancient times, and the actual ceremony. "Cao Wei did not regard Cao Can as the ancestor, Liu Song did not regard Chu Yuan Wang as the ancestor, Qi and Liang did not regard Xiao He as the ancestor, Chen did not regard Chen Hugong as the ancestor, Sui did not regard Yang Zhen as the ancestor, then we are Did Mao take King Wuzhao of Liang as his ancestor?"
The first ancestor is the Taizu, and there is no other ancestor besides the Taizu.
Although the Li family had considered Lao Tzu as their ancestor before, it is really unnecessary when it comes to the ancestral temple. To be honest, the Tang of Datang comes from Tang Guogong Li Hu. Li Hu was one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms of the Western Wei Dynasty. He was granted the title of Duke of Longxi County during his lifetime and Duke of Tang after his death. This is the origin of Li Tang.
Qin Lang thought that it is not necessary to invite Lao Tzu, Xiliang Li Hao and others into the Taimiao. It is really good to take Li Hu as the Taizu, and then invite seven ancestors to go in. In the future, every time an emperor is sent in, , Then please invite the one below the Taizu out, and set up another room next to it for worship.
Always maintain the number of seven temples in the Taimiao, only the ancestors will not move.
Of course, if the Li family respects Li Hu as the great ancestor, and Li Yuan is the great ancestor, Li Yuan will not need to move out of the Taimiao in the future. The distance is far away, and when newcomers come, the old ones have to go.
Of course, like the Qing Dynasty, they had three ancestors, Taizu Nurhachi, then Huang Taiji was Taizong, the third emperor Shunzhi was Shizu, and the fourth emperor’s temple name was Shengzu.
Eastern Han Emperor Liu Xiu of Guangwu Zhongxing, although he was the founding emperor, but because he played the banner of continuing the Han Dynasty, his temple name is Shizu.
As for Cao Cao's grandson's temple name Lie Zu, this is a bit messy.
The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, had neither the achievements of creation nor the virtues of success, so he could not be called the ancestor in the end, and barely kept half of the Song Dynasty, so he was called Song Gaozong after his death.
Generally speaking, the ancestors are stronger than the ancestors, at least there is no need to worry about being invited out of the Taimiao.
Chengqian's mind is obvious, that is to infinitely elevate Li Shimin, which is of great benefit to him.
In history, Li Shimin was Emperor Taizong. After a few generations, Li Shimin would be invited out of the Taimiao and sent to a private room, but later Yan Zhenqing believed that Li Shimin's contribution to the Tang Dynasty was unmatched, and the subsequent emperors were all his descendants. , so Li Shimin should be like Li Hu and Li Yuan, forever immortal.
But there is no such saying now. Now the tradition is that the ancestors will not live forever, but the ancestors will not.
Chengqian wanted to give Li Shimin the temple name of the ancestor, but felt that Taizong was not enough.
After Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, he followed up with his ancestors.
"If Emperor Jing is the ancestor, then the ancestral temple will not be filled with seven chambers!" Cheng Qian said hesitantly.
After all, the position of Taizu in the Tang ancestral temple is now vacant. There are six chambers in the ancestral temple, and the tallest one is Li Xi, Duke of Xuanjian, who is Li Yuan's great-grandfather.
If Li Hu is the great ancestor, then Li Tianxi, Li Xi, and Li Chonger above Li Hu are not suitable, after all, there is no ancestor other than the ancestor.
But in this way, Li Hu, Li Yan, Li Yuan, and Li Shimin are only the fourth generation, and the sixth generation of the emperor died, which is not enough for the sixth generation.
Qin Lang gave a compromise opinion, respecting Li Hu as the ancestor, and then still respecting the six chambers, making up the seven chambers. In the future, every time one enters, another one will be invited out except the ancestor Taizu.
"Where is the former emperor?"
Chengqian still hopes to make Li Shimin his ancestor.
"How about respecting the ancestors?"
Qin Lang felt that although Shizu was very serious, he wasn't popular enough. After all, Li Shimin's posthumous title was already designated as the Holy Emperor of Civil and Military Affairs, so it's better to simply honor him as the Holy Ancestor.
(end of this chapter)