Chapter 658: The Ancestral Conduct of Heavenly Unification

In the fifth year of Tiantong, after the destruction of Qin, Deng Sheng specially formulated a system of inheritance and stability with the crown prince Deng Hao and made regulations on the throne, title inheritance system, and the inheritance of the title of Deng and fief of the title of Deng. It was established as a ancestral teaching and worshipped in the Taimiao, and the descendants of the descendants shall not change it.

At the court meeting the next day, the Crown Prince Deng Hao, on behalf of Deng Sheng, read the ancestral teachings to the civil and military officials of the court. The ministers responded in a different way. Most of the ministers who could enter the Jingyang Palace had titles. Deng Sheng's ancestral teachings were pros and cons for them.

Advantageously, their fiefs were stipulated, and at the same time, there was a certain guarantee for the property generated by the fiefs. At the same time, once the heir system was released, the struggles arising from the family's children to compete for the inheritance of the title and the family property were avoided to a certain extent.

The disadvantage is that the titles are subject to the titles and titles, and after several generations, they will continue to be reduced. In the end, if their descendants do not have too outstanding talents, they will always become ordinary people, and even the entire family will decline. However, as the saying goes, thunder and rain are all the things that Deng Sheng decided, and it is difficult for them to change.

However, they were not very anxious, because the ministers who could enter the Jingyang Palace meeting were the marquises at the lowest level, which was the benefit of the founding heroes. Although they were not considered the founding heroes of Deng, when Deng was the weakest, they stood firmly beside Deng Sheng, and accompanied Deng's country to become stronger, which theoretically was considered as a dragon's merit, so they were easier to obtain titles than later generations, and their titles would be reduced to at least two generations. Moreover, after two generations, the marquis became an earl, and could pass on one generation, then become a viscount, and then pass on another generation. In general, even if the descendants were not good, their marquis could guarantee the wealth of six generations. This was not easy, so they were not very resistant.

The marquis are not in conflict, let alone those dukes and princes. A duke, even if his descendants are not promising, can guarantee that he will become a civilian in more than ten generations. To be honest, it is still a question whether the country of Deng can be passed down for more than ten generations. Moreover, Deng has not yet completed the unification of the world, so he may be able to make more merits and raise the title. Every time he upgrades a title, he can at least ensure the wealth of two or three generations.

If the ministers say who is most uncomfortable, they are the Minister of the dynasty Hu Weiyong and Minister of Works Liu Jian. As soon as Deng Sheng's ancestral teaching was released, they almost cut off the path of King Deng Zun of Qi to inherit the throne.

The ancestral teaching stipulates that the eldest son is orthodox. As long as he lives to the day he succeeds to the throne, he will not be able to escape the throne. Moreover, even if the eldest son dies early, as long as he has a son, the other princes will not have a chance.

Deng Hao has been the crown prince for more than ten years, and is deeply trusted by Deng Sheng and supported by the government and the government. His position can be said to be very stable. As long as he is calm, the throne will naturally belong to him. Even if Deng Hao died before Deng Sheng, Deng Hao still has several sons. It can be said that as long as Deng Hao’s lineage does not do anything that will lead to a single family being scattered, the throne will basically belong to them.

If Deng Zun still has the chance to inherit the throne, he would probably have to raise an army. However, when Deng Sheng was there, Deng Zun did not dare and had no chance. Even if Deng Sheng died in the future and Deng Hao succeeded to the throne, with Deng Hao's prestige and ability, to be honest, Hu Weiyong did not think Deng Zun could defeat Ying Deng Hao, and Deng Zun now has no military power at all, how can he fight?

It's so uncomfortable. It's already well known that Hu Weiyong's party and the prince Deng Hao are not in harmony. Although Hu Weiyong may not be able to survive the position of Shangshu Ling until Deng Hao ascends the throne, when he reaches Hu Weiyong's position and age, he is more concerned about the inheritance and development of the family. If Deng Hao ascends the throne and suppresses their Hu family, it will be a waste. Although Deng Hao may not do this, Hu Weiyong dare not gamble. So when he discovered Deng Zun's second son, Hu Weiyong made up his mind to assist Deng Zun in fighting for the throne and gain a merit of being a dragon. Maybe he can get a title of a king in the future.

Hu Weiyong is already a county duke, and he entered Lingxiao Pavilion. As long as nothing unexpected happens, after the Zhao State is destroyed and the world is unified, the title of Hu Weiyong can be mentioned as Duke, but King Xun is not qualified. However, if he helps Deng Zun to the throne with one hand, then King Xun still has hope.

However, as soon as Deng Sheng's ancestors came out, he directly cut off Hu Weiyong's thoughts. The person who felt even more uncomfortable than Hu Weiyong was Liu Jian. Hu Weiyong was all meritorious officials, and he also entered Lingxiao Pavilion. Deng Hao may think of Hu Weiyong's past meritorious achievements in the future and open the net, but Liu Jian is different. He is the backbone of Hu Weiyong's party. It can be imagined that once Hu Weiyong retreats, the power that originally belonged to Hu Weiyong will naturally be taken over by Liu Jian. Once Deng Hao ascended the throne, the first person to deal with would probably be Liu Jian.

Moreover, Liu Jian is several years younger than Hu Weiyong, and he still has the thoughts that when Hu Weiyong retreats, he can take over the position of the Secretary of the Shangshu Ling. After all, there is still a big gap between a Secretary of the Shangshu Ling. Liu Jian is now a Marquis, and he will be able to mention the title of the King if he dies in the future. However, if he can take over the Shangshu Ling, then Liu Jian can at least get a county duke, and even a county duke is not impossible. But now the ancestral teachings have basically cut off his thoughts.

Deng Sheng, who was sitting in the throne of the emperor, didn't care what these ministers were thinking, and he didn't need to pay too much attention. However, Deng Sheng thought about it and found that some of the ancestors still needed some supplements.

So he said: "This ancestral teaching was formulated by me for the sake of the great Deng's fortune. The descendants of future generations shall not change it. In addition, I also want to add one to the ancestral teaching."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Deng Sheng, and they were all standardized so, why did they need to add it?

Deng Sheng faced everyone's puzzled eyes and said, "A person lives for a lifetime, but only for decades. Neither emperor nor generals nor ministers can be spared. There will always be a day. In the future, except for princes and princes, after the Lord passed away, he will posthumously awarded the title of first class according to his lifetime to express his merits and favors!"

"I thank Your Majesty for your deep kindness!" Hearing this, all the ministers bowed to the ground and thanked him.

After death, he was posthumously awarded a first-class title, that is, after the death of King Xun, he could be posthumously awarded a prince, after the death of Duke, he could be posthumously awarded a prince, and so on. Although this practice actually did not have much practical effect, it looked much better for the name behind him. After all, on the tombstone, King Xun was better than Duke. They learned literature and martial arts since childhood and assisted the king, in order to benefit the world and be famous in history?

"The prince, after the dynasty is dispersed, write this article into the ancestral teachings." Deng Sheng said to Deng Hao.

"Yes! Father, is this posthumous title a person in the future or the merits of my eldest son Deng? " Deng asked, Deng's merits and military officials are not only the living people, but also a number of them have passed away. So do these people still need to posthumous title?

"The posthumous title, although they can't wait for today, the court cannot forget and erase their achievements. Since they are posthumous titles after their death, they are naturally indispensable." Deng Sheng thought for a while and said.

Deng Sheng ascended the throne for more than 30 years. Over the years, he has died many merits, but most of them are viscounts, earls, etc., and there are also a few more marquises, Cai Feng, Li Tianhu, Huang Biao, Deng Yong, Su Hong, and Cheng Yu. However, after Deng Yong ascended the throne, he was posthumously named Prince. He has reached the top and there is no room for him to continue posthumously. After Li Tianhu, Huang Biao and Su Hong died, they were actually posthumously named King Xun. The only thing they didn't have was Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu was the Duke of Shu during his lifetime, so he had to posthumously titled King Xun now.

"The late Duke Cai, Duke Ding Guo, Duke Rong Guo, Duke Jing Guo, Duke Shu were all important ministers of my great Deng. Today, they made great contributions. However, when Duke Cai, Duke Ding Guo, Duke Rong Guo, Duke Shu passed away, my great Deng title was not yet perfect. Although there were some posthumous titles, these titles were not enough to commend their merits. Therefore, they all need to posthumous titles to express their merits!" Although Cai Feng, Li Tianhu, Huang Biao, and Su Hong had already received posthumous titles after their deaths, Deng Sheng said that this title was not enough to commend their merits and needed to continue posthumous titles.

"Your Majesty is wise!" The ministers praised. Although what Deng Sheng did was just a commendation for the dead, this shows that Deng Sheng had never forgotten these meritorious officials.

"Father, if you need to postpone the late Duke Cai, Duke Ding, Duke Rong, Duke Jing, and Duke Shu, you need to postpone him as King Xu. How should you choose the title of King?" Deng Hao asked.

Although the title of King Xun has been set for many years, no one in Deng State has ever obtained this title, so there is no clue about how to choose the title of King Xun.

Deng Sheng thought about it and was also quite distressed. If it was the title of Prince and Prince, it would be a good choice, but it would be more difficult to win the King of Honor. The title of Prince is the Prince and the title of Local is the Prince.

After thinking about it over and over again, Deng Sheng decided to use some words with good meaning as the king's title, so he said: "The King Xun is not a prince or a prince, so there is no need to worry too much. Just choose some words with good meaning as the king's title. The late Duke Cai Cai Feng posthumous to King Li, Duke Ding Huang Biao posthumous to King Ding, Duke Rong Li Tianhu posthumous to King Xin, Duke Jing Su Hong posthumous to King Yong, Duke Shu Cheng Yu posthumous to King Yang, and the Ministry of Rites selects a good day to rebuild the tombs for the kings to show his merits!"

"Here!" Chen Qun, Minister of Rites, replied.

After announcing the ancestral teachings and posthumous titles for the late meritorious deeds, some trivial matters were discussed at the court meeting and the court dispersed.

After the dynasty, the three provinces and six ministries passed on the ancestral teachings to the world. Although Deng Sheng did not set a name for the ancestral teachings, everyone called this ancestral teachings the ancestral teachings the ancestral teachings of heaven.

And those who announced the world together with Zu Xun were Cai Feng, Huang Biao, Li Tianhu, Su Hong, and Cheng Yu who chased the title of grace. After the title of grace, the doors of several families suddenly became lively.

There has always been a hidden rule in the officialdom, that is, people leave, and tea is cold, let alone die? Li Tianhu's family is fine, after all, the Li family has produced many talents, but the families of Cai Feng, Huang Biao, Su Hong, and Cheng Yu gradually declined as the deaths of several people.

The Cai family and the Su family are not bad. After all, the Cai family has a queen's daughter and a crown prince. The two grandsons of the King of Qi will be bound to be prosperous and wealthy in the future. The Su family also has two juniors, Su Yun and Zhuge Liang, who support it, but the Huang family and the Cheng family are not good, so gradually, the relationship between the two families and the outside world has been much less.

However, with Deng Sheng's pursuit of the edict, the party that was originally deserted suddenly became lively. As soon as the Tiantong ancestral teachings came out, Cheng Yu's Duke of Shu and Huang Biao's Duke of Ding Kingdom could be inherited. Even if there was no one who carried the tripod, there was a duke. The Huang family and the Cheng family were still the top nobles of Deng's State. Moreover, Huang Biao and Cheng Yu had a wide connections during their lifetime. Cheng Yu was one of the four ministers of Deng Sheng's Qiandi. They had a very good relationship with Jiang Wan, Yang Yanzhao, and Chang Yuchun, not to mention Huang Biao. Back then, they were the generals of Deng's State, Yue Fei, Yang Yanzhao, Chang Yuchun, and Li Siye, who were all his subordinates. It can be said that the most influential people in the Deng State military are all related to Huang Biao. With these connections and their own titles, they cannot fall in a short period of time.

"This person is really snobbish!" In Ganyang Palace, Deng Sheng couldn't help but sigh after hearing about the Huang family and Cheng family. After Huang Biao and Cheng Yu died, since no one in the family could enter the core again, the people who had gradually disappeared. Moreover, Deng Sheng did not set up a inheritance system for titles, so the Duke of Huang Biao and Cheng Yu did not inherit the title. Therefore, in everyone's eyes, these two families have already declined, but now the edict of the title and the decree of the title have become desolate, and the two families that seemed desolate suddenly became lively.

"Your Majesty, this is human nature. The human heart is the most unpredictable thing." Guixiang, the eunuch, said with a smile.

"Yes, but that's fine. In this way, I finally didn't treat the heroes badly." Deng Sheng said with a smile.

In fact, compared with the Cheng family, the Huang family is better. After all, the daughter of Huang Deng, the late head of the Huang family, married Deng Zun, the Prince of Qi. She is the Prince of Qi and is also considered a royal relative. However, when the daughter of the Huang family got married, Deng Zun was just a famous prince and did not have any real power. Unlike the two princes who hold heavy troops, Deng Han, King of Jin and Deng Yu, King of Wei, who hold heavy troops, the outside world did not pay much attention to Deng Zun.

After deciding the ancestral teachings, Deng Sheng now has only one thing left to do, that is, to move the capital. This was decided by Deng Sheng a long time ago. However, the war in Guanzhong had not yet subsided. In order not to cause trouble, Deng Sheng had to attract and not make any noise. He just let some noises be made to spy on the reactions inside and outside the government and the country, and planned to wait until Guanzhong was pacified before declaring it.

Now that Qin has been destroyed, Xiliang and Guanzhong have obtained it, it is time to move the capital on the agenda. Due to the battle of Guanzhong, Deng State consumed a lot of money and it would take some time to restore it. Moreover, Xiliang in Guanzhong had just been pacified and it would take a lot of effort to manage it. Therefore, within a few years, Deng State had no spare energy to fight the northern expedition, and Deng Sheng's plan was to complete the capital before sending troops to attack Zhao State.

"Gui Xiang, go and find the prince for me." Deng Sheng said to Gui Xiang.

"Here!" Gui Xiang responded and went to Shangli Palace to invite Deng Hao.

About two quarters of an hour later, Deng Hao came to Ganyang Palace.

"My son has met my father!" Deng Hao saluted Deng Sheng.

"No need to be too polite!" Deng Sheng said: "How was the arrangement for worshiping the Taimiao?"

Deng Sheng decided to give ancestral teachings and wanted to worship them in the Taimiao. It was not just a matter of putting ancestral teachings in the Taimiao. He had to worship the ancestors in the Taimiao, and then respectfully put the ancestral teachings in the Taimiao.

"When I go back to my father, my son has sent someone to the Ministry of Rites to pass on the message, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to choose a good and auspicious day as soon as possible." Deng Hao replied.

Deng Sheng nodded and said, "This matter is important, and you must pay attention to it. It is a matter of discussing the move of the capital today."

"Move the capital?" Deng Hao suddenly became energetic when he heard this. He took the initiative to discuss this matter, so Deng Hao attached great importance to it. Now Deng Sheng took the initiative to ask him to discuss it, which means the time has come.

"That's right!" Deng Sheng nodded and said, "Now that Guanzhong is pacified, but in the battle to destroy Qin, the consumption of my great Deng is quite large. It is unlikely that I want to go north to attack Zhao State within three years. I plan to take advantage of this time to complete the capital movement. Of course, the capital movement cannot be completed within a few years. Although Luoyang is the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, and the city and palaces are very broken, and it still takes a lot of effort to transform it. I plan to improve the outer city and the palace first, and build the main palace halls of the outer court. As for the harem palace, it can be built slowly."

Moving the capital does not mean moving the capital as soon as it moves the capital. As a capital city of a country, the scale of the city and palaces must be perfected to be considered a qualified capital. In the later Chinese history, as an orthodox dynasty, only the Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty had a history of moving the capital, but these dynasties were very different.

During the Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was beaten away, and half of the country was lost. The capital was occupied by others. It would be impossible not to move the capital. However, the Jin Dynasty was different from the Song Dynasty. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was a regular capital in Jiankang. Theoretically, the Song Dynasty did not move the capital because Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty Zhao Gou only set Lin'an as a prefecture. What was the prefecture? It was just an independent palace. The capital of the Southern Song Dynasty was still in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, but it was occupied by the Jin Dynasty.

The places where the Northern Wei, Jin Dynasty and Qing Dynasty moved capitals were basically the capitals of the previous dynasty. Luoyang, where the Northern Wei capital was the capital of the Cao Wei and Western Jin Dynasty, was not far apart, and the foundation was still there. The Jin Dynasty moved the capital to Zhongdu, which was previously the Nanjing Prefecture of Liao Kingdom. It had a complete palace and city scale, and it only needed a little transformation to use it. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, Beijing was originally the capital of the Ming Dynasty, so it was used directly.

Although the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, Beijing was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty before, and it had a certain scale in both cities and palaces, even so, it took the Ming Dynasty more than ten years to officially complete the capital.

In contrast, although Luoyang City has a certain foundation, it is relatively broken and it is difficult to complete it all within three years. Therefore, Deng Sheng planned to make the two facades of the outer court and the outer city first, and then the inner city and the harem are slowly improving. This speed is already considered fast.

"What my father said is very true. If Luoyang City is fully renovated and improved, it may take more than ten years. This is the most appropriate way to do it." Deng Hao nodded and said.

"After you go back, write a memorial and write it carefully, and tell us all the necessary and benefits of moving the capital. You must have a reasonable and well-founded way to convince the ministers. After the next court meeting, you will submit a memorial directly. After the court meeting is approved, you will be responsible for moving the capital." Deng Sheng said.

Although the matter of moving the capital has been decided, the process that should be taken is still gone, so Deng Sheng asked Deng Hao to propose it at the court meeting and then pass the court discussion in the same way. However, although it is said to be moving the capital, this form is not so easy. After all, there are many people who oppose moving the capital. Next, it depends on how the father and son convince the ministers.
Chapter completed!