Chapter 990 Only be the emperor for 20 years
When Cao Cao and Liu Bei accompanied Emperor Liu Bian to Luoyang, millions of men in the world watched quietly as they made every move in Luoyang city, wanting to see how King Zhao Xing of Pingxi fulfilled his promise.
Zhao Xing did not disappoint the world. Luoyang's actions were not only fast, but also very large, and finally did not disappoint the expectations and curiosity of countless "enthusiastic audiences".
First of all, Emperor Liu Bian publicly announced the time and place of abdication, which were somewhat beyond people's expectations.
The time for abdication was set on a certain day in the late November of the 12th year of Guangxi. If you look at the imperial calendar, it seems to have nothing to do with the auspicious day of the zodiac. Needless to say, this time was set by Zhao Xing. In recent years, Zhao Xing has repeatedly observed the height of the sun and accurately figured out the time of the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox, summer solstice, and winter solstice. This is the general calendar used in later generations. He planned to ascend the throne on New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar, and at the same time, he followed the flow of changes to the era. From then on, he abolished the change of emperors and developed many practices of torture the people.
The Gregorian calendar has always been more than a month earlier than the lunar calendar, so the New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar will appear, and it will become a certain day in late November of the previous year. Zhao Xing had already thought about it and designated the day when he ascended the throne as the first year of the Han Dynasty. In the future, the system of year names will be completely abolished. Regardless of how many generations the emperor changed, the Han calendar will be adopted and the calendar that parallels the lunar calendar and the lunar calendar will be implemented. The Gregorian calendar is used to record history, determine the time of military and national affairs, and the lunar calendar is used to guide agricultural production and determine annual festivals and holidays.
The abdication was set in the repaired former Han Palace in Chang'an City. In the future, the Nangong and Beigong in Luoyang will no longer become royal palaces. Beigong is the History and Military Museum of the Great Han Dynasty, and Nangong is the residence of the National Financial Services and Financial Center of the Great Han Dynasty.
Although it was just a short message, it revealed very important information. First, the name of the Han Dynasty had indeed not changed, and all the Han people would continue to become Han people in the future; second, the handover between the two emperors created a new model, as if it was an excessive process in a very harmonious and stable manner, which would not make blood suddenly appear and thrilling.
Shortly after the emperor announced the news, he was sent to the newly built Dahan State Hotel in Chang'an City for a temporary stay. Only five concubines and his children accompanied him. It is said that after the new emperor ascended the throne, he would issue laws to the world to completely abolish the wives and concubine system, and stipulate that adult men of the Han Dynasty could only have three wives of the same status at the same time in their lifetime. It is strictly forbidden to "eat more and occupy more", and it is not allowed to privately raise "Xiao Si" and "Xiao Wu".
It should be noted that the rule set by Zhao Xing emphasizes "at the same time", that is, an adult man can only marry one wife, two wives, seven or eight wives, or more than a dozen wives in his life, but at any time no more than three who meet the legal procedures. If a man's wife unfortunately dies or divorces, he can marry a new third wife.
Zhao Xing's rule did not radically engage in monogamy at once, but it also effectively restricted the problem that wealthy and powerful people would be crazy about raising their wives, while poor people could not get their wives. Especially when he stipulated that three wives had the same right to inherit property without distinguishing between before and after, it would be very powerful. If an adult man in the Han Dynasty married three wives, and then he fell in love with another woman and wanted to divorce one, he had to share a quarter of his entire property to the woman. If he changed two or three wives in a row, the property he actually possessed would be severely reduced.
Zhao Xing now has seven wives, which is a serious excess, but when Zhao Zhenbang comes, he has to implement the new rules set by him. The emperor who can abdicate has retained five wives is already considered to be a treatment that exceeds the standard. As for the hundreds or thousands of palace maids in the three palaces and six courtyards, all of them were dismissed and the women's civilian status were restored.
With the sharp "cutting" of the emperor's wife, the profession of "eunuch", which made Zhao Xing extremely disgusted and feared, will also die. The "Han Charter" formulated by Jia Xu clearly stipulates that the royal family will not recruit any eunuchs as attendants from now on. If any new emperor dares to restore the throne in the future and restore some old systems, such as the use of eunuchs, it will be regarded as a serious violation of the "Han Charter" and will face the end of being expelled from the throne.
In Zhao Xing's opinion, the "thing" of eunuch is not a good thing. To put it bluntly, it is an accomplice who encourages the emperor's arrogance, extravagance, delusion and incompetence. It is really the biggest cancer of Chinese feudalism! So many foreign countries have also experienced the feudal dynasty period, and there has been no such a deformed profession of eunuchs in other countries. Chinese civilization has nurtured such a freak that is not human.
However, in the past, emperors liked to use eunuchs, largely because they were worried that the three thousand beauties in their harem could not help but be lonely and would have an affair with the men who were "carried" below, so they were extremely selfish to come up with the crazy way of using eunuchs. Now Zhao Xing took the initiative to put shackles on his descendants and stipulated that they could only have three wives, which greatly avoided the possibility of the emperor's women having an affair with other men because of dissatisfaction with desires.
Furthermore, if the emperor's woman really has an affair with other men in the future, it will be nothing big. It is just a scandal within the royal family. It will not easily shake the foundation of the empire and destroy the purity of the royal bloodline. Because in the future, the emperor will hand over the situation of abdication. It is not only the emperor's son who can inherit the throne, but will be selected from the descendants of the royal family according to age and ability. Under normal circumstances, the emperor ascended the throne at the age of 35 to 40, and continued to rule for twenty years. He abdicated around the age of 60. He will never allow the appearance of a baby emperor, let alone the "old and confused" and "old and immortal" guys are greedy for the throne.
In Zhao Xing's view, a person can only possess the various talents to control the world when he is about forty, but after he is sixty, he will need to give way to the young and strong new emperor due to physical and intellectual degeneration.
Zhao Xing was not worried about whether the "handover" system he had established would be restored, because he only planned to work for twenty years, from ascending the throne at the age of 36 to handing over the shift to Zhao Zhenbang, who was exactly 40 years old at the age of 56. If Zhao Zhenbang had problems during this period, Zhao Xing had seven or eight sons to meet the conditions for succession.
According to the inspection results of Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji, Zhao Xing is likely to live to be over 90 years old. When Zhao Xing is 76 years old, he will witness the scene of his son Zhao Zhenbang handing over to the third imperial successor. When Zhao Xing is 96 years old, if he has not returned to heaven, he will witness the third emperor of the empire handing over to the fourth emperor with his son.
Zhao Xing had a full sixty years to guard the implementation and implementation of the "Character of the Han Dynasty". These sixty years were enough to greatly improve the concepts of the Han Dynasty and allow the constitutional monarchy to grow and grow. As long as the Han Dynasty did not destroy the country, Zhao Xing would not believe that anyone among his children could be so staggered by the will of the will that he could shake the charter he had set in hundreds of years.
If anyone dares to restore the game, the Han people and the descendants of the royal family will not let him go! Because the royal family must be quite large at that time, there were too many candidates for the throne who meet the conditions. Before there was no better "rules of the game" appear, the system established by Zhao Xing was the best. If an emperor did not abide by the rules of the game, the price would be that he would be driven down by more people who were willing to abide by the rules!
Chapter completed!